Word: mission
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...never lost sight of his mission--keep PBHA student-led," Dean Kidd said over email. Fellow members of the PBHA cabinet acknowledge that, at every meeting, Joe will not only help generate new plans and strategies for the organization's future, but will also check off what they have accomplished...
Strategic plan. Organizational mission. Larger picture. These are big, power-hungry and empty words. At heart, what Joe really loves and cherishes is spending time with his little siblings, who are now high school student. He has been hanging out with his three younger siblings every Saturday since our first year. Joe is committed to these Boston students and is currently mentoring the youngsters on getting into college. One of them was so inspired by Joe that this summer he volunteered to be a big brother himself...
...figured I would visit the source of inspiration for Washington Irving's story and now, the new movie. I would take a tour the anachronistic haven for the ghouls and ghosts that Washington Irving captured in writing 150 years ago: the true Sleepy Hollow. I set out on a mission to hunt out all the ghosts I could find. I was determined to track down the spirits of Sleepy Hollow, find where they have been hiding for the past century and a half, and just get a good ol' scare in the process...
...campus for groups of all kinds: religious, political, artistic and social. A union is allowed to gather dues to support collective bargaining and other activities central to its purpose and many universities see the existence of a well-used forum of student debate as central to their academic mission. As Justices David H. Souter '61 and Stephen G. Breyer observed during the oral arguments, a university supporting multiple--often contradictory--messages may not fall under the same scrutiny as a union supporting a particular candidate...
...earth's atmosphere today is significantly different than it was in 1966 - it's filled with man-made devices that could be damaged by going bump in the night with a rock flying at 250 miles per hour. Accordingly, a planned space shuttle mission will be delayed until the 19th. But people on the ground would do well to turn their gazes to the storm - due to irregularities in the earth's rotation, another one isn't expected until the 22nd century...