Word: missionize
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...agreed-upon dividing line between recessions and depressions, and no descriptive word in between. "It's a recession when your neighbor loses his job," Harry Truman once quipped. "It's a depression when you lose yours." What Reich and Morici seemed to be groping for - other than media exposure (mission accomplished!) - was a way to express that the current downturn may be a more serious phenomenon than other recessions of the post-World War II era. (See pictures of the recession...
...words of Tim Gunn, the student body must “make it work” in order to achieve this aim. The UC must reaffirm its mission to advance student interaction and inter-community learning by maximizing the net benefit of event funding. The UC must strengthen its relationships with other grant-giving bodies, such as the Harvard Foundation, Office for the Arts, and Phillips Brooks House Association to ease student access to Harvard’s many resources. Finally, the UC must prioritize clear communication and simplify avenues for grassroots student input to better inform sensible, productive change...
...That mission remains hugely important in the contemporary world. Its work is not yet done,” Sen said...
...foundation was established to support the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs with the mission of preparing graduates for careers in government service with special emphasis in international relations...
...know what the mission used to be - to kill or capture Osama bin Laden and destroy his al-Qaeda command. But once bin Laden slipped away, the mission morphed into a vast, messy nation-building effort to support the allegedly democratic Karzai government. There was a certain logic to that. The Taliban and al-Qaeda can't base themselves in Afghanistan if something resembling a stable, secure nation-state exists there. But the mission was also historically implausible: Afghanistan has never had a strong central government. It has been governed for thousands of years by local and regional tribal coalitions...