Word: missionize
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...almost three years, Katy has kicked herself for missing his call. She wonders what Scott would have told her about some of the things that were going wrong with his mission that day. Maybe she could have persuaded him not to go. She knows that's unlikely--the same kind of willful wishing that any mother whose child was killed in action might have. It's too late to keep him safe, but she still wants to know what happened after he hung up the phone. And because her son died for his company, not his country...
...troops.” Would a true patriot pursue a policy that sullies the American standard, that makes United States a pariah in the civilized world? Would a true patriot place thousands of American troops in harm’s way, knowing that hope for success in their mission is long since passed? Would a true patriot have sent thousands to war, knowing that he is sending them under false pretenses...
...continued: “The terrorists don’t expect to beat us in a stand-up fight. They never have. They’re not likely to try. The only way they can win is if we lose our nerve and abandon our mission...
...location will be a positive addition to the neighborhood.“With that particular setting there are a lot of legitimately high expectations of what it could become,” Daly says.Citing the need to organize the building in accordance with the museum’s public mission, Daly also emphasized its unique role as a teaching museum. The promised prominence of “study centers,” where patrons can request and view individual pieces, is one of the clearest manifestations of didactic ambition. “They provide close, intimate encounters with our works...
...Iraq war has challenged the conservative movement's custodianship of America's place in the world, as well as its claim to competence. Reagan restored a sense of America's mission as the "city on a hill" that would be a light to the world and helped bring about the defeat of what he very undiplomatically christened "the evil empire." After 9/11 Bush found his own evil empire, in fact a whole axis of evil. But he hasn't produced Reagan's results: North Korea is nuclear, Iran swaggers across the world stage, Iraq is a morass. "Conservatives are divided...