Word: missions
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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When community leaders in Roxbury's Mission Hill area decided to do something about the neighborhood's high infant mortality rate, they consulted experts at Harvard's School of Public Health...
...Detroit: Last year, Coach Chuck Daley decided his team lost to the Lakers in the finals because Los Angeles was "on a mission...
This year, Daley's club should be on the same mission, simply because it deserved to win last year. If it hadn't been for an injury to point guard Isiah Thomas in Game 6, the Pistons would have downed the Lakers...
...this point, fears that gross financial interests may be distorting Harvard's pursuit of knowledge appear to be turning into a reality. If Harvard, which some believe to be the world's finest university, cannot protect the purity of its academic mission, who will? Unless the University can present convincing evidence that such incidents will not occur again, it is time that Harvard withdraw its individual and institutional relationships with industry...
...BRIGHT SHINING LIE by Neil Sheehan (Random House; $24.95). In a riveting portrait, John Paul Vann, a major architect of U.S. policy in Viet Nam, emerges as a man who embodied the contradictions of his ill-fated mission: a courageous do-gooder with a dark streak of amorality...