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...twelve committees now standing, says Prisons was one of the first committees to "change over." He says the committee to "change over". He says the committee really began to change direction in the summer of 1973, when he himself was working for a Massachusetts organization, the Ad Hoc Committee for Prison Reform. During that summer, John Boone, commissioner of correction, who was working for the elimination of correctional institutions, was fired after holding office for a year. Phillips Brooks House decided to join the loose coalition of people and organization in the state pressing for radical change in the penal...
...House, voted 66 to 28 to postpone for 90 days the President's three-stage, $3 per bbl. tariff increase on imported oil. Thus they cleared the way for enactment of an alternative program that will concentrate on reducing consumption without raising prices. Both houses have ad hoc committees working on energy programs. Said Texas Representative Jim Wright, who heads the House task force: "Relying on a tariff to cut domestic consumption is roughly analogous to a husband's arranging with a merchant to raise the prices on women's clothing in the hope that his wife...
Just when Freeman's appointment will take effect will be decided by an hoc Faculty committee. According to sources in the Ec Department, Dean Rosovsky has told the department that any new tenured appointments probably will not take effect until 1976 at the earliest or, more likely...
Gene M. Lyons, associate dean of the Dartmouth faculty and chairman of an ad hoc faculty committee on ROTC, said yesterday that although the trustees usually follow faculty recommendations, on this issue they...
...think that it can be influenced in a substantial way to be less troublesome and to unleash the enormous resources of this country. What has happened is that there has been a tendency to deal with effects and not causes, so we have had a lot of patchwork, ad hoc solutions that do not deal with the overriding issues of growth and wage-price stability...