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...hoc body recently reviewed and endorsed a proposal to change the set points for the heating and cooling of FAS buildings to match those recommended by the American Society of Heating, Refrigeration, and Air-Conditioning Engineers. The two-degree change—to 68 degrees Fahrenheit in the winter months—could potentially save more than $600,000 a year...
...find out which specific programs were working and which weren't." It was a terrifyingly brisk and comprehensive process, especially compared with the dust storm produced by the last Democratic President, Bill Clinton, during his chaotic transition period. "During Clinton's transition, you had all these people writing ad hoc papers about what to do at this agency or how to deal with that policy, but that was an extension of how Clinton's mind works," says one of the many Obama aides who is a veteran of the Clinton Administration. "Clinton had this great horizontal intelligence. He could pull...
...Whether Brown's policies offer better solutions remains to be seen. While there's little more it can do to boost domestic banks' lending, the government is still "doing everything on an ad hoc basis," reckons Simon Maughan, banking analyst at MF Global in London. "There is a serious risk that if Gordon Brown's poll rating falls, then he'll do something else, but it won't necessarily be constructive. We're going to have a recession, and at some point, you've just got to suck...
...Harvard in the William J. Seymour Society. This initiative foreshadowed over two decades of work conducted by Black student intellectual activists who were concerned about the growing problem of Black-on-Black violence and what was then becoming known as the Black underclass. At that time an ad hoc coalition of Black churchmen, in collaboration with the Nation of Islam and other grass roots activist began a series of fora to address the issue. These initiatives, reported in both the Boston Globe and the Harvard Crimson were, amusingly, never reported in any of the research which evolved into a cottage...
...industry. Some of the trio's decisions - like not rescuing Lehman Brothers in mid-September - have come under criticism on Wall Street and Capitol Hill for being hesitant and reactive. Associates say Geithner doesn't necessarily disagree with the charge that the government's response "has had an ad hoc, seat-of-the-pants quality to it," as a senior investment banker in the middle of things puts it. That's one reason Geithner and the rest of the Obama economic team have indicated that they plan to move more aggressively, on an even broader scale, than the government...