Sentences with phrase «year mission of»

Joel Klein, Controversial as Chancellor of NYC Department of Education, Offers Lessons on Fixing Education WNYC: Klein writes about his eight - year mission of improvement: demanding accountability, eliminating political favoritism, and battling a powerful teachers union that seemed determined to protect a status quo that didn't work for kids.

Affleck, who directed and starred in the film as CIA exfiltration expert Tony Mendez, tied as best director with Kathryn Bigelow for her work on the gripping, Zero Dark Thirty, which recounts the ten year mission of a female CIA agent determined to find and kill Al Queda terrorist leader, Osama Ben Laden.

The film opens on the ageing crew, three years into their five year mission of discovery and diplomacy.

During the two - year mission of Mars Express, it will survey more than half the planet at a resolution of 30 to 50 feet; if the mission is extended to four years, he says, he can do the whole thing.

MomsTeam Institute, Inc. is a Massachusetts non-profit corporation formed in November 2013 to continue and expand on MomsTEAM's fourteen - year mission of providing comprehensive, well - researched information to youth sports parents, coaches, athletic trainers, and other health care professionals about all aspects of the youth sports experience.

Moreover, the events of the New Testament took place during a relatively short period of time, and during these years the mission of the Church captured the necessary attention of the early Christians.

Over the years the mission of the cooperative gallery has grown to include both representational and abstract painters.

Not exact matches

The event, staged on a U.S. bomber under a massive banner that screamed «Mission Accomplished,» overshadowed the years of conflict and bloodshed that followed.

If all that sounds kind of gooey, well, that's truly the broader mission of the digital health wave too — a movement that attracted a record $ 5.8 billion in venture funding last year, according to Rock Health.

A group of not for profits that joined forces 18 months ago with a mission to end homelessness will today publicly launch its 10 - year plan on Adelaide Terrace, followed by a music event through the streets of the CBD.

When Cassini plunges into the cloud tops of Saturn later this year, it will mark the end of one of the most successful missions of discovery ever launched by humanity.

Needless to say, it has truly been an honor to be a part of the Cassini mission and a privilege to work with colleagues, postdocs and students through the years.

Musk has seen success of the two - stage rocket Falcon 9, which completed nine launches and landings, and earlier this year a rocket finish a second successful mission.

Date of birth: 05/27/64 Year he enlisted in the Army: 1983 Year he received his pilot's wings: 1994 Year he flew his first combat mission, in Kosovo: 1999 Year he completed the fighter weapons instructor course (a.k.a. the «Top Gun» course): 2000 Flying hours logged: More than 3,100

Earlier this year he launched Singularity University with a handful of other tech luminaries with the stated mission of «preparing the world for accelerating change.»

By the summer of the following year, Nintendo achieved that mission with the $ 199 SNES it deployed to North America.

Maybe the country was particularly fond of a bit in season two with a KGB spy who wakes up from a 30 - year coma and resumes his mission to take down America.

One of the changes the company has made in the years since is to change that original mission statement, which now reads like this: «Apple designs Macs, the best personal computers in the world, along with OS X, iLife, iWork and professional software.

The Dragons» Den argument speaks to something of a mission Kopke has embarked on in the past few years to affect change in Canada's business culture.

Three years ago, 10 employees were given the job of brainstorming the software company's mission statement, along with codifying its vision and values.

Derivatives trading is the culmination of a wild year for bitcoin, which captured imaginations and investment around the world, propelled by its stratospheric gains, and its anti-establishment mission as a currency without the backing of a government or a central bank, and a payment system without a reliance on banks.

When you do look for funding be ready to explain clearly what you want your company to look like in five years, how your mission will change the landscape of its industry and the revenue potential.

UAF has worked extensively with both institutional and commercial partners in Alaska and in recent years, using drones to monitor sea lion populations in the Aleutian Islands, conduct ice flow and environmental surveying missions for NASA and National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, inspect pipelines for oil and gas giant BP and assist a Russian tanker during a dangerous late - season fuel delivery to the remote Alaskan outpost of Nome.

Planes from the Garibaldi carried out 288 missions in the first year of the War in Afghanistan.

He said that in September of this year, he would reveal details about a new rocket and spacecraft beyond the current Falcon and Dragon series, which may be used for Mars missions.

An impactful statement can serve as a reminder of why you founded your business, and a mission statement worthy of memorization can guide you for years to come.

Now, under a $ 440 million contract with NASA, SpaceX is in the midst of making refinements to the Dragon so that in the next two to three years it can fly manned missions as well.

But Pettis, a 38 - year - old former Seattle art teacher, is a man on a mission to put his company's manufacturing kits on every desktop so users can build their own 3 - D printers to create colorful plastic models of objects that they design or download from the web.

Every year, Glide, a San Francisco church and mission, is the beneficiary of an auction in which the prize for the top bidder is a private lunch with Buffett.

In his sophomore year, he started TerraCycle in his dorm room with the mission of recycling materials previously viewed as unrecyclable.

So far this year, the company has successfully completed four launches, including a resupply mission to the International Space Station in February, as well as placing satellites into orbit on behalf of two commercial customers.

Last year, North Korea hackers allegedly attacked Sony Pictures before the premiere of The Interview starring Seth Rogen as a journalist on a mission to kill the country's leader, Kim Jong Un.

The U.S. military is a launching a new mission this year, one that aims to ensure more of those who serve are also saving for their financial future.

More than three decades after the launch of the first space shuttle mission (and three years after the last one), investment in new human spaceflight systems is back with an intensity the aerospace industry hasn't seen since the heady days of the Space Race.

BEIJING (AP)-- U.S. Ambassador to China Gary Locke, who oversaw the handling of potential crises over the flights to U.S. diplomatic missions by a persecuted legal activist and a high - profile police chief, said Wednesday he will step down early next year.

She was made to last for a two - year mission, but with any luck (and judging by the hearty 9 - years - and - still - going run of the Opportunity Mars rover) she will far outlast that.

And when you're tasked with building and launching spacecraft millions or even billions of miles from Earth, on missions that take several years, long - term planning is pretty critical.

The mission aims to identify planets ranging from Earth - sized to gas giants, using an array of telescopes to perform a two - year survey.

If the landing is successful, it will be the first time scientists have landed a probe on a comet, and it will be the completion of a mission that began 10 years ago when the Rosetta spacecraft launched.

Developing and protecting the culture is one of the most sacred parts of the SEAL experience, but if you listen to a lot of conversation in the business world, «culture» isn't much more than a soft buzzword that gets put up on a PowerPoint slide once or twice a year ten minutes after you talk about the corporate mission statement or annual strategic initiatives.

He says setting an ambitious new mission is critical for a company after the excitement of the start - up years has subsided.

TESS aims to discover thousands of planets during its two year mission

Forty years ago UNICEF figured out that promoting simple, low - cost interventions like hand - washing and breastfeeding could save millions of lives, and its mission has helped children in more than 190 countries and territories.

Patagonia has released several documentaries over the past few years, a unique strategy to spread its longstanding mission of supporting environmental activism.

But her mission that day — good clothes at good prices — sums up what Target has been about for most of its 50 years.

Billed as the Trump administration's new strategy on Syria, the announcement will prolong the risks and redefine the mission for the U.S. military, which has for years sought to define its operations in Syria along more narrow lines of battling Islamic State and has about 2,000 U.S. ground forces in the country.

We found some absolutely stunning photos taken by U.S. Army staff over this year that captured close - ups of military missions, trainings and the life of the American soldier.

Israel's spy agency, Mossad, stole a huge trove of documents from Iran earlier this year in one of its most brazen missions.

Mission statements and five - year plans are something of a foreign language for the Vanderbloemen Search Group, which baked culture into its identity from the very beginning.

In addition to hiring 5,500 veterans in the past two years, Starbucks has been on a mission to help bridge a disconnect between the military and civilians, while honoring the service and sacrifice of veterans and military spouses.