Word: statement
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...Harvard undergraduates in 1977 ended the necessity of the institution. I don't deny the assertion that for a long time just getting the women through the gate was the main goal. I have spoken to many alumnae and read a number of documents which agree with this statement. However, like any equal rights movement in history, Radcliffe's movement to educate women has had to raise its expectations as times changed and as its movement gained more success...
Opponents of hate laws employ a simplistic and misleading argument: "All crimes are hate crimes," says Gov. Gary E. Johnson, the Republican governor of New Mexico, who has promised to veto any hate crime legislation that comes before him. No one would dispute his statement. But crimes based on hatred of an individual are different from crimes based on hatred of a whole part of our nation...
Deep said the statement sets a difficultprecedent for the organization...
...fleet's new post-cold war mission isn't about blowing things up. It is about protecting American power around the world without firing a shot, by visiting foreign ports along with other warships, implicitly flexing martial muscle. "The United States," says the Navy's official sub statement, "maintains a capabilities-based, multimission submarine force that is sized to satisfy peacetime requirements and is not sized to counter any country's threat...
...affected morale on board the nation's fleet of 65 attack subs, which is slated to be reduced to 50 in 2003. Young officers who dreamed of chasing Soviet subs around the globe can't figure out what they are supposed to do. "A concise submarine-force mission statement would help junior officers understand why they are at sea," a Navy lieutenant writes in Proceedings. "Without a mission statement, there is no sense of direction for the submarine force." And the Navy is having difficulty manning (no women serve aboard U.S. submarines) even its shrinking fleet. Since July the Navy...