Word: missioneering
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...excised the preparedness component of FEMA in order to divert the majority of its funds to counter-terrorism measures. Without the ability to plan effectively, FEMA’s response to natural disasters can be nothing but truncated and uncoordinated. The de-prioritization of FEMA’s mission has severely weakened the organization’s morale, and top disaster specialists, senior leaders, and experienced personnel have left in droves. The dearth of long-term professional staffers is exacerbated by a lack of workers in general: the Louisiana branch, for example, has a mere 90 employees to manage...
...Odierno, who had served as Petraeus' deputy for 15 months until February, returns for his third Iraq tour at a time when Washington and Baghdad are still hammering out the details of a contentious security pact to mandate the continuation of the U.S. mission next year, after the U.N. mandate that currently legalizes its presence expires in December...
...James P. Currier, founder and chairman of Medpedia—whose stated mission is to become the world’s largest collaborative online encyclopedia of medicine and health—has called upon faculty at the Medical School to lay the groundwork for the project...
That determination to see things through is now being applied to his own party. "David took a much stronger line than I did in [the leadership contest]," says David Davis. "He would use a word like detoxifying the party. He thought that was the predominant mission, and arguably he was right." That meant Cameron ditching some of his own bred-in-the-bone leanings toward social conservatism. In 2003 Cameron opposed the repeal of 1988 legislation banning local authorities and schools from "promoting" homosexuality. He now says his earlier stance was a mistake...
...Citing the ambassador's previous role as the U.S. State Department's Bosnia desk officer from 1994 to 1996 and then Chief of Mission in Kosovo from 2004 until 2006, the MAS statement accuses Goldberg of being "an expert in encouraging separatist conflicts." It chronicles clandestine meetings between the Ambassador and rightwing political and business leaders, and claims that Goldberg had arranged for a media "dirty war" against Morales and is now encouraging the violent takeover of government institutions to force out the president...