Word: missionizing
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Since its inception in January 2006, DAPA has spearheaded a mission slightly different than most typical drug and alcohol awareness education programs. In line with Harvard’s amnesty policy, the student peer-advising group recognizes that students will drink at college and seeks to encourage safety above all else...
...Energy Initiative, for example, is financially backed by mega-corporations like BP, Siemens, and Lockheed Martin. The program boasts over 70 energy-related courses and interdisciplinary research groups of engineers, economists, management gurus, and policy experts. With BP and Ford’s blessing, the explicit mission of Princeton’s Carbon Mitigation Initiative is to “lead the way to a compelling and sustainable solution of the carbon and climate problem.” With Harvard conspicuously absent from the race, these other schools are going all in with clean technology, betting that they will attract...
...which is now $80 million in the red. But Smith shied away from details and gravitated towards general statements regarding plans to implement the budgetary recommendations devised by the working groups and his continued dedication to academic planning and Harvard’s “core mission...
...current head of the White House Office of Management and Budget. At one point, Orszag - who devoted much of his tenure at the CBO to laying the groundwork for health care reform - went so far as to accuse his former agency of having "overstepped" its mission by displaying a tendency toward "exaggerating costs and underestimating savings." Among economists, those are fighting words. They may also reflect the difference between one who works for the President and one who does not. (Orszag declined to be interviewed for this article.) (See what health care reform really means...
...Pentagon officials acknowledge privately that such work is under way, though nearly all of it is classified. The recent creation of U.S. Cyber Command shows that the U.S. military is taking this mission seriously. "You have to be very careful about what you say in this area," says a top cyberwarrior of the Pentagon. "But you can tell there's something going on because the services are putting their money there and contractors are going after...