Formal missions are chosen from a selection of non-linear options from your helicopter command centre, which then drops you off at a location you specify.
The Fed also has two formal missions that are codified in law: to promote "maximum employment" (thus its duty to head off recessions) and, of course, to maintain a stable purchasing power, which is generally interpreted as keeping the inflation rate at a tolerable level.
John Lewis's constitution also lists a formal mission to maximise the "happiness" of its staff.
That's its mission (if not its formal mission statement): to sell more stuff to more people.
He chaired the foreign law committee for the New York Bar Association and led the ABA's first formal mission to China.
The formal mission of America's land-grant colleges, for instance, was to improve the performance of agriculture and the mechanical arts.
The MoD's formal mission statement describes Bill Jeffrey, the unimpressive permanent secretary, as "not only leading the workstream process, but driving it".
Robert Storr, the dean of the Yale University School of Art and the organizer of the 2007 Venice Biennale, said that artist-organized shows often succeed because of the way artists find the "oddments" that trained curators, pursuing a more historical and formal mission, overlook.
C. 1180 Pian del Carpine?, Italy August 1, 1252 Bar, Montenegro Giovanni Da Pian Del Carpini, English John Of Plano Carpini (born c. 1180, Pian del Carpine?, near Perugia, Umbria died Aug. 1, 1252, Antivari [Bar], Dalmatia?) Franciscan friar, first noteworthy European traveller in the Mongol Empire, to which he was sent on a formal mission by Pope Innocent IV.
The phone-booth-sized Dark Energy Camera snapped its first images in September 2012 and will begin its formal mission in September this year, looking not only at supernovae but also at three other dark-energy signatures in the cosmos.
It is considered a best practice in policing for municipal governments to write formal mission statements defining exactly what they want from their police departments.
