Word: missioners
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Annual President's report of 1973-74, Bok focused on the goals--or "mission" as Kennedy School people like to say--of Harvard's school of government: to train a "new profession" of public servants to hold responsible positions in the government...
Following that declaration, Assad departed for Moscow, where he hoped to persuade the Soviets to supply him with more arms and ammunition. The mission was fresh evidence of the heavy costs Syria had incurred since it intervened in Lebanon two years ago. Ironically, Assad's forces moved in to prevent the defeat of the Christian armies by radical Muslim and Palestinian commandos. Since then, however, the Syrians and the Christians have become bitter enemies because the Christians persist-against Assad's advice-in their efforts to partition Lebanon along sectarian lines. Since February more than 650 Syrian soldiers...
...Gerhard Neumaier, president of Buffalo's Ecology and Environment, Inc., participation in the mission was a last desperate attempt to break into a market that for four years had rebuffed him. A specialist in analyzing the environmental ramifications of projects ranging from dams to industrial parks, Neumaier in 1974 founded a Japanese subsidiary and spent $500,000 in a futile search for contracts. Says he: "We wouldn't have stayed all this time if we hadn't been encouraged by government bureaucrats who said, 'Be patient, you'll eventually succeed.' " Fed up with meaningless...
...Japanese government had warned the Americans not to expect quick results. Yet the very fact that the mission was invited to Japan raised hopes that the barriers of high tariffs, endless import-icense red tape and discriminatory quotas were being lowered. The experience of the U.S. visitors was sobering. Quick fix trade deals like the one negotiated last January between the U.S. and Japan and whirlwind tours of businessmen are no way to solve the critical imbalances in world trade caused by Japan's insatiable urge to export and parsimonious reluctance to import. In fact, such cosmetic exercises only...
...mission is to develop a professional school that is dedicated to research on important questions of public policy," Bok said, stressing his hope that the public policy work, now based on a two-year masters' program, would be expanded...