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The answers to questions such as these certainly depend to some extent upon the educator's own social-class position and also upon his social history, as well as upon his personality and what he conceives his mission to be as an educator.
A seventh landing mission, the 1970 Apollo 13 flight, failed in transit to the Moon when an oxygen tank explosion disabled the command spacecraft's propulsion and life support, forcing the crew to use the Lunar Module as a " lifeboat " for these functions to return to Earth safely.
Geologists believed prior to the mission that both of these formations were volcanic in origin ; however, samples returned from the lunar surface have since proven this hypothesis is incorrect.
It was these formations that the scientific community widely suspected were formed by lunar volcanism ; however, this hypothesis was proven incorrect by the composition of retrieved lunar samples from the mission.
The nature of these services is described in ARIN's mission statement:
The result is that Clipperton is now virtually a sandy desert, with only 674 remaining palms counted by C. Jost during the " Passion 2001 " French mission, and five islets in the lagoon with grass that these terrestrial crabs cannot reach.
The Court said: “ It appears to us that NCRL ’ s filtering policy is reasonable and accords with its mission and these policies and is viewpoint neutral.
Some of Pope Gregory the Great ’ s letters survive that relate to the mission of St. Augustine to Kent in 597 ; these letters provide information about the mission specifically, but also can be used to draw conclusions about the state of Kent and its relationships with its neighbours.
The radiation environment near Io in particular was very unhealthy for Galileos systems, and so these flybys were saved for the extended mission when loss of the spacecraft would be more acceptable.
The flight rotation put these three in line to fly as prime crew on the third following mission, Apollo 18.
Its mission is to provide comprehensive scientific assessments of current scientific, technical and socio-economic information worldwide about the risk of climate change caused by human activity, its potential environmental and socio-economic consequences, and possible options for adapting to these consequences or mitigating the effects.
One or more of these elder chiefs might accompany a big force on an important mission, but there was no single " field marshal " in supreme command of all Zulu forces.
The mission of these workers and the AFL-CIO " is to improve the lives of working families — to bring economic justice to the workplace and social justice to our nation.
In the proposal, it concluded " The mission of the Luftwaffe is to serve these goals ".
A number of anti-submarine missiles also exist ; these generally use the missile in order to deliver another weapon system such as a torpedo or depth charge to the location of the submarine, at which point the other weapon will conduct the underwater phase of the mission.
Many of these carefully collected scientific data had been lost during the ill-fated journey of Peter Tessem and Paul Knutsen, two crew members sent on a mission by Amundsen, but they were later retrieved by Russian scientist Nikolay Urvantsev as they lay abandoned on the Kara Sea shores.
However, the 1960 shootdown of a CIA U-2 by an SA-2 Guideline surface-to-air missile ( SAM ) while on a clandestine reconnaissance mission over the Soviet Union suddenly complicated the introduction of these new aircraft.
As of October 2008, these forces remained in Kosovo and between 1998 and 2008, the aid given to Kosovo by the UAE ’ s Red Crescent Authority alone cost Dh125 million, the biggest international humanitarian mission in the UAE's history.
Although these propellants would provide reduced exhaust velocity, their greater availability can reduce payload costs by a very large factor where the mission delta-v is not too high, such as within cislunar space or between Earth orbit and Martian orbit.
Despite these misgivings and a loss of operational surprise, the SEALs of TU Papa proceeded with their mission.
On 2 June, Powell spoke against the stationing of American Cruise missiles in Britain and claimed the United States had an obsessive sense of mission and a hallucinatory view of international relations: " The American nation, as we have watched their proceedings during these last 25 years, will not, when another Atlantic crisis, another Middle East crisis or another European crisis comes, wait upon the deliberations of the British Cabinet, whose point of view and appreciation of the situation will be so different from their own ".
** An interplanetary mission ; these have included:
In the Ismaili context, these assignments were performed by fida ' is ( devotees ) of the Ismaili mission.
The effect of these raids, particularly when coupled with his capture of the Royal Navy's HMS Drake — the first such success in British waters, but not Jones's last — was to force the British government to increase resources for coastal defence, and to create a climate of fear among the British public which was subsequently fed by press reports of his preparations for the 1779 Bonhomme Richard mission.

mission and institutions
Most Southern Baptist and National Baptist congregations, by contrast, generally relate more closely to external groups such as mission agencies and educational institutions than do those of independent persuasion.
PostgreSQL is often used for global mission critical applications ( the. org and. info domain name registries use it as their primary data store, as do many large companies and financial institutions ).
The state institutions collapsed and an EU military mission led by Italy was sent to stabilize the country.
Though it was a private institution to be located in the middle of urban Boston, the new institute had a mission that matched the intent of the 1862 Morrill Land-Grant Colleges Act to fund institutions " to promote the liberal and practical education of the industrial classes ", and was thus named a land-grant school.
In addition to the activities at the Costa Rica Headquarters Campus, UPEACE works with an increasing number of partners in various parts of the world to ensure that the UPEACE mission is extended to reach as many individuals and institutions as possible.
NIH works toward that mission by conducting research in its own laboratories, supporting the research of non-federal scientists ( in universities, medical schools, hospitals, and research institutions throughout the country and abroad ), helping in the training of research investigators, and fostering communication of medical and health sciences information.
Edah's mission statement stated: " The Vision of Edah is an Orthodox Jewish community in which we, as members, leaders, and institutions .... reach out to and interact with Jews of all the movements as well as non-affiliated Jews as an expression of the wholeness of, and in an effort to strengthen, the entire Jewish people.
The U. S. space shuttle program included payload specialist positions which were usually filled by representatives of companies or institutions managing a specific payload on that mission.
# the mission to spread these institutions, thereby redeeming and remaking the world in the image of the United States.
Its stated mission is " to defend the principles and improve the institutions of American freedom and democratic capitalism — limited government, private enterprise, individual liberty and responsibility, vigilant and effective defense and foreign policies, political accountability, and open debate ".
** Travelled to Romania and Turkey for the documentary, Duchess and Daughters: their secret mission, shown on ITV1 on 6 November 2008, investigating poor treatment and conditions in children's institutions in those two countries.
This award gives DOE access to academic and research institutions to help DOE meet their mission and legal obligation to license, construct, and open Yucca Mountain as the nation ’ s repository for spent nuclear fuel.
The stated mission of the CAHCIM is " to advance the principles and practices of integrative healthcare within academic institutions.
The status of the avant-garde is particularly controversial: many institutions argue that being visionary, forward-looking, cutting-edge, and progressive are crucial to the mission of art in the present, and therefore postmodern art contradicts the value of " art of our times ".
The USIA's mission was " to understand, inform and influence foreign publics in promotion of the national interest, and to broaden the dialogue between Americans and U. S. institutions, and their counterparts abroad.
According to Thomas, " the Court is willfully blind to the very real experience in California and elsewhere, which raises the inference that institutions with ' reputations for excellence '... rivaling Law's have satisfied their sense of mission without resorting to prohibited racial discrimination.
WOCCU's mission is to " assist its members and potential members to organize, expand, improve and integrate credit unions and related institutions as effective instruments for the economic and social development of all people ".
Such institutions, he claims, see new opportunities more quickly than competitors, adapt to change more easily, and create workplaces that offer employees a greater sense of mission in their jobs.
However, the NCLR emphasized that MEChA's mission statement is to support Latino students at institutions of higher education.
Colleges vary in size and mission, and include general FE, tertiary and specialist institutions, including one Roman Catholic Sixth Form College and a residential adult education college.
It can foster a depth and breadth of connections among other institutions as well as within the institution itself, its programs, and its constituents and can provide an efficient means to reinforce shared visions and commitments to its mission.
In a statement, the university said that " Whilst the Council respects UCE's distinctive mission, it does not share UCE's analysis of the potential opportunities that might arise from any merger ", and cited influencing factors such as Aston's approach to research and teaching, the " significant differences between the missions and strategies " of Aston and UCE, and the negative impact that prolonged discussions would have on both institutions.
The oldest of Shandong University's precursor institutions, Cheeloo University, was founded by American and English mission agencies in the late 19th century ( as Tengchow College of Liberal Arts in Penglai ).
The earliest precursor institutions that would later be fused into Shandong University were founded by American and English mission agencies: Calvin W. Mateer, an American Presbyterian missionary, and his wife Julia Brown Mateer arrived in Dengzhou () in the area of the present-day city of Penglai on the north-eastern coast of Shandong Peninsula from the United States in January 1864.

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