One place to look, especially apt in this instance: The 1956 congressional debate that created the interstate highway system. The 1956 Federal Aid Highway Act was the health-care legislation of its day, an epic Washington battle. The pressure had been building for decades as the number of cars exploded.
Definition of 'appropriation'. appropriation. An appropriation is an amount of money that a government or organization reserves for a particular purpose. The government raised defence appropriations by 12 per cent. Appropriation of something that belongs to someone else is the act of taking it, usually without having the right to do so. [formal] Other charges include fraud and illegal appropriation of land.
Eucatastrophe is a term coined by English writer J. R. R. Tolkien which refers to the sudden turn of events at the end of a story which ensures that the protagonist does not meet some terrible, impending, and very plausible and probable doom. Tolkien formed the word by affixing the Greek prefix eu, meaning good, to catastrophe, the word traditionally used in classically inspired literary criticism to refer to the unraveling or conclusion of a drama's plot. For Tolkien, the term appears to have had a thematic meaning that went beyond its literal etymological meaning in terms of form. In his definition as outlined in his 1947 essay On Fairy-Stories, eucatastrophe is a fundamental part of his conception of mythopoeia.