Word: mission
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That the camera could achieve a distinctly poetic justice would be proved a few years later by Lewis Hine, a onetime photography teacher who worked with a reformer's sense of mission and an artist's eye. Riis' pictures were raw; Hine's were frank but tender, with none of Riis' occasional nose-holding attitude toward the poor. There is no pigeonholing in Hine's 1904 portraits of immigrants arriving at Ellis Island, no cliches of nationality or occupation. He knew that people who might not yet speak the language of their new home could still state themselves plainly...
...camouflaged MiG-23 interceptor of the Syrian air force took off from a base near Damascus last week, flew on a training mission to the Golan Heights, then dropped to 164 ft. and zoomed straight into Israel. It landed on a civilian airstrip at Megiddo, 57 miles north of Jerusalem, where its pilot, Major Mohammed Bassem Adel, 34, asked for political asylum. At a press conference last week, he said he had defected because "I would like to live in a democratic state...
...primary mission of television is to provide entertainment to millions of homes," said Harvey C. Dzodin, vice president of commercial clearance at ABC. "As a by-product, television keeps people informed...
...Career Forum can be useful in a number of ways. Certainly the most common use is for "feeling out" prospects for jobs after graduation, or for term-time or summer internships. You may wish to find out more about the mission of a particular agency, or to ask the representative about other agencies in the same field. The Forum can also serve the important function of allowing you to practice "interviewing" with a representative of an agency without the stakes being too high. One other aspect of the Forum is that many of the for-profit organizations represented also have...
...what was happening, but I felt something had to be done" was the way Gerald Ford explained his recapture of the cargo ship Mayaguez in the Gulf of Thailand in 1975. "Let's do it" was Reagan's simple command that sent F-14 pilots aloft on a risky mission in the Mediterranean that apprehended and forced down the Egyptian airliner carrying the hijackers of the cruise ship Achille Lauro...