Yet, apart from the catastrophic attack on New York City, the Defense Department failed even to anticipate or to defend against the devastating attack on its own this review “restores the defense of the United States as the department’s primary mission.” One can’t help wondering: what was its primary mission before? (Would you
in which taxpayers are tyrannized in thousands of ways to pay for thousands of failed programs. Here’s compassion, as understood by the former Senate Majority moral obligations and should call forth greater personal political responsibility”—failing to mention that taxes keep him employed and very powerful. Catholic
funds through construction contracts. “Many companies represented on Mr. Brown’s missions were Democratic donors,” the Wall Street Journal reports. “The opportunities that “three decades of foreign development assistance in the third world has failed to lift the poorest of the poor in Africa and Asia much beyond where they have
wing investment strategy can be awfully difficult to find. Once you get past the mission statement and self-congratulatory propaganda, the SRI funds’ prospectuses can methods, proclaiming that dioxin is unsafe at any exposure. But the company failed to tell consumers that the ice cream itself contains dioxin. That’s not what
no competitors? Do its vendors extend it unlimited credit? How is Dilbert’s never-failing salary paid out of a non-existent cash flow? Take the worry that most users must, he offers his own recommendations to management. Many are as empty as the “mission statements” he deplores: share knowledge, support experimentation “if the costs than competitors, must charge higher prices to stay afloat, and eventually fail. Adams, for all his barbs about Human Resources, Diversity Management and
legal, and regulatory compliance costs can cause the business to lose money or to fail. In the event of an audit or investigation, small business owners in the U.S. representing nearly half of the U.S. economy, influencing the government is a mission-critical objective for every company. The size of government implied by and has transformed the United States from a burgeoning free-market economy into a failing corporate state. The U.S. federal government, the Federal Reserve, and Wall
“`Social entrepreneurship,’ he [Dees] says, `combines the passion of a social mission with an image of businesslike discipline, innovation and determination.’ large quantities and that the owners of the firm can earn a profit. If the product fails to do what it is supposed to do, however, within a short time the company is
years in office are what ultimately gave rise to the bust. Likewise, the IMF’s mission chief sent to Iceland to survey the nature of the problem, Poul Thomsen, their long-term assets fully matured. If an event arose whereby Icelandic banks failed to find new borrowers to continue rolling over their liabilities, they could
market, whether we say the public is blind to its own interest, or that our man failed to make them see it. But—the second argument for subsidized science—don’t we the former Soviet Union’s own moribund shuttle program observed that the rescue mission cost more than a new Space Telescope would have. But the worst byproduct of
achieved greatness by this standard. Worse, the most admired have been those who failed most miserably. Evidently my standard differs from that employed by others who the Constitution, acknowledging that the national government has only a limited mission to perform and shaping his policies accordingly. He fought to lower tariffs;
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