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Inmates and prison officials are currently negotiating on a multiplicity of issues, Phyllis Ryan, a spokesman for the Ad Hoc Committee on Prison Reform, organizers of the observer teams, said yesterday. She said that the prisoners consider the observers helpful in protecting them...
Although the Department has not formally offered Jencks a professorship, Franklin L. Ford, acting dean of the Faculty, said an ad hoc committee has been set up to review Jenck's qualifications...
However, Franklin L. Ford, acting dean of the Faculty, said yesterday that the Department is in the process of setting up an ad hoc committee to review the recommendation...
...hoc committee will study Jencks's qualifications and then submit a report to the President who will make the final decision...
...even attempt to understand where the advanced capitalist economy was going. Nor did it provide the basis for a critique of capitalism. The result has been that where conventional economists have attempted to deal with these problems, the result has borne the unmistakable mark of an ad hoc analysis using tools totally inappropriate to the task at hand. When conventional economic analysis is used as the basis for public policy in these areas, the result is generally a program of superficial and ad hoc palliatives, as in the so-called war on poverty...