Word: missionize
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...that girls were so bombarded with after-school sports, lessons and high-octane homework that neither they nor their parents found Girl Scouts compelling enough to keep on the calendar. "It was a brutal truth we had to confront," says Cathy Tisdale, the Girl Scouts national vice president for "mission to market." So they set out to become the "premiere leadership organization for girls." Troops and badges will still exist - but girls can also choose to take "journeys" instead, opting, for instance, to make a six-week foray into the community for service, rather than meeting once a month...
...outstanding. It's the opportunity of being there-the people you meet, the education you receive, the lecturers you're exposed to, the places you're able to visit. It's more than just the prestige. The NFL, like I said, is a goal and a dream. My main mission in life is to help people and use my God-given ability to impact the world. If playing in the NFL gives me a platform to advocate for the issues that are important to me, then let's do it. The choice...
...Voluntourist. The Good Hotel, a newly renovated 117-room hotel in San Francisco's trendy SOMA neighborhood, is in name and mission a good hotel. The building is constructed out of recycled and reclaimed materials, the lobby vending machine dispenses gifts also made from reclaimed materials (no potato chips here) and the hotel has partnered with the nonprofit volunteer organization One Brick to encourage guests to become "voluntourists." A phone in the lobby connects guests to the agency, which guides people to local charities seeking short-term help. Special opening rates from $119 to $139. 112 7th Street, San Francisco...
...hits the fan, the PNTL will just head for home. They will go back to their villages and it will be every man for himself." Australian academic Bu Wilson has just completed a review of the PNTL's capability. She fears that "rather than rebuilding the PNTL, the U.N. mission may be instead bequeathing a weak and unstable police force to Timor-Leste...
...Wilson found glaring problems with the retraining process. Screening and certification were politicized and confused, she wrote, while some PNTL officers whom the U.N. mission had recommended should be dismissed for breaching integrity rules had instead been promoted. Mentoring by UNPOL had been scaled down, and many UNPOL officers preferred to do the police work themselves...