Word: missions
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Residents turned out in record numbers to re-elect board members favoring the project to the Mission Hill Neighborhood Housing Service (NHS), despite opposition from some community activists who say Harvard is giving the group the land in exchange for political favors...
...profit corporation founded in 1975 with federal funding to secure home-improvement loans from banks previously unwilling to lend credit to residents of the Mission Hill area...
...education was a sham. They were betrayed by the good intentions of others, by institutional self-interest and by their own blind love of the game. Equally victimized are the colleges and universities that participate in an educational travesty -- a farce that devalues every degree and denigrates the mission of higher education...
...updated version of the TV show Mission: Impossible, special agent Jim Phelps no longer gets his top-secret instructions by merely opening an envelope and listening to a tape recorder. These days Phelps puts his right thumb on the special pad of a black box that, after reading his thumbprint, promptly pops open and gives a laser-disc video presentation of his next assignment. No one but Phelps can open the box because no one else has his thumbprint...
...Malone, the first woman to deliver the countdown for a space shot, betrayed little emotion, her colleagues at NASA could barely contain their excitement. "It gets better every time," exulted NASA administrator James Fletcher. He had reason to cheer: last week's launch of Discovery, the third shuttle mission since the 1986 Challenger disaster, was another significant milestone in the comeback of the U.S. space program...