Word: missions
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...clock on a weekday evening, having just flown in from his Vermont retreat, following the previous week's human rights mission into the hills of El Salvador, Pritam Singh is touring the best piece of real estate on Key West: the Truman Annex, a former Navy property where Harry Truman had his Little White House...
Like Dorothy watching the oncoming tornado, I read about the growing debate over the mission of the Phillips Brooks House Association (PBHA). I hope that somebody clicks their heels and wakes up before that home, that wonderful place that PBHA has built, is destroyed in the growing storm...
...with the vision and talent of Soviet President Mikhail S. Gorbachev in spreading his ideas of perestroika and glasnost. And the United States has not always pursued its foreign policy goals in a noble and ethical way. But the part played by the United States in accomplishing its mission--of encouraging democracy around the world--has been a great...
...Civil War took place within a 50-year period. Many can not tell where their own state is on a map. Others just don't worry about school and go watch TV. The problem, however, is not the student's fault, but the fault of a society whose sole mission over the past 50 years has been to promote democracy abroad. Well, the risk of expansionary communism has been eliminated, and it is time to properly educate the students of America. Without educating our students, the United States runs the risk of turning into a second- or third-rate nation...
IHAD a job last year sorting articles for a sociologist who was writing a book on New York City. My mission was to read newspaper articles and then put them in manila folders with labels like "Homelessness," "Ethnicity" and "Transportation." Although most of my folders had straightforward labels, one of them was mysteriously marked "NIMBY...