Word: missions
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...Harvard interprets Title IX more stringently than others. Schools like Dartmouth and Brown have proven more willing to consider single-sex educational programs--like the Women's Science Alliance--as part of the mission of a co-educational university. At several other universities, a single-sex Science Alliance could still have a future...
Formerly known as the Learning Channel, TLC wasn't always this intuitive. Before Discovery Communications acquired it in 1991, the channel's more scintillating programs included an IRS-sponsored instructional called The Subject Is Taxes and the crafts-oriented Sew What's New. Translating its pedagogical mission into warmer, fuzzier, but still informative reality fare for women fell to daytime-programming chief Chuck Gingold, who had worked at Lifetime and had noticed the huge success of shows about weddings like that of Prince Andrew and Sarah Ferguson. With heightened competition for the women's market, voyeurism at a premium...
Unlike many businesses that "window dress," as Walker puts it, their annual reports with environmental mission statements, he's been willing to take a hit on the bottom line, if necessary. In the mid-'80s, when Greenpeace was protesting Norwegian whaling, he canceled a huge prawn contract with Norway at considerable cost, and has done no more business with the country...
...first real yeehaw before we rode off into the sunset. Mostly fragments of the trip have stuck with me: the chorus of a song "you've got to lick it," the suffocating stench of foam, the cool slip and slide of my new black pants and a search mission one morning for my best friend. There were jet skis and tan lines...
...That mission is gaining importance as Bradley becomes more popular: in a poll released last Thursday by a New Hampshire television station, 42 percent of likely Democratic primary voters chose Bradley; 35 percent chose Gore. It was the first time that Bradley had gained a lead outside of the margin of error (in this case, it was a 6 percent margin of error...