Word: goals
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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According to Bok, a university's "institutional goal" should not be "to reform society in specific ways." Rather, a university's special mission is the discovery and transmission of knowledge," which by itself serves a major social function...
Mark Fidler puts in a shot for B.U.'s first goal. He skates back to the bench with no visible trace of excitement...
...quick goal gave Dartmouth a 1-0 lead, but more importantly, solid backchecking and clutch defense kept the slightly nervous (at first) Gaudet from being too severely tested. Everything hung together for the Big Green until 8:32 of the second, when a miserably-timed line and defense change gave UNH a three-on-zero break and a tie game. The Wildcats needed only 37 seconds to go out in front, but Dartmouth fought back until Steve Higgins made the match, as Bud Collins would say, "dead even" with less than 14 minutes left in regulation...
...nation International Energy Agency in Paris. The nations agreed to cut overall oil consumption by 5%, but because the U.S. uses so much, it pledged to reduce imports by 11%, or 1 million bbl. a day. The U.S. Department of Energy announced that it would meet that goal by relaxing controls on gasoline so that the retail price, which now averages some 70? for regular, will rise about 5? during the year, thereby discouraging consumption...
...determined to cash in on China's vast promise. The question both for outsiders and for the Chinese is whether the world's most populous nation can really modernize .its poor and backward agrarian economy in a mere 20 years. That is China's ambitious goal, but economic realities have already forced Peking to reconsider some of its grand plans...