Word: mission
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...fated predecessor, Project Camelot, both funded by the United States Department of Offense (sic), represent the transition in U. S. foreign policy from Imperialism to Psycho-Imperialism. They are prototype applications of social science data-gathering and model-building techniques to the Offense Department's 'global mission...
Since a trip to Mercury is still far off, Gold hopes for more immediate confirmation of his theory. An opportunity may come during the Apollo 12 mission in November. If the astronauts discover glazing of the same age in a different area of the moon far from Tranquillity Base, Gold says, he will be satisfied that such a solar catastrophe actually occurred...
From the moment she decided to marry him in 1952, she became as convinced as he was that God had a special mission planned for Martin. When he was asked to take on the leadership of the spontaneous Montgomery bus boycott in 1955, they began to understand what the mission would be. All along the extraordinary path that his life then took he agonized over the difficult consequences of his actions. But he never doubted that he was the instrument of God. Once when a mood of deep depression seemed suddenly to have lifted from him overnight, a reporter wondered...
...Faculty's two recent experiments in new types of committees-The Student-Faculty Advisory Council and the Committee of Fifteen-may not seem encouraging to some, but neither of these committees is comparable to those here proposed. SEAC has always suffered from the lack of a defined mandate: its mission has been to consider any issue put before it, rather than examining one area in detail. In effect, SFAC has scattered its efforts too widely, and has not had the impact which the committee would have had if it had concentrated them. The Committee of Fifteen, by contrast...
...some 82 pages, is on the concrete value to the Department of Defense of "basic research" in social science computer methodology: the document tries to leave no doubt that the project will aid the Defense Department in carrying out what in Pentagonese is vividly referred to as its "mission...