The WHO is given to grandiose objectives ("Health for all by 2000" was one ludicrously unachievable example).
Reagan failed to achieve the religious right's grandiose objectives, but he delivered on other issues religious conservatives cared about, like cutting taxes and increasing military spending.
That was a promise to check hubris at the door, an effort to guard against the temptation to believe that because he had such awesome power at his fingertips, he could and should use it to achieve grandiose objectives.
Any company can have grandiose objectives, but the analyst may not have the necessary systems to ascertain performance against objectives.
In 1973, the Lighthill report on the state of AI research in England criticized the utter failure of AI to achieve its "grandiose objectives" and led to the dismantling of AI research in that country.
In 1982, as minister of defence, he led Israel's invasion of Lebanon in a war of deception that failed to achieve any of its grandiose geopolitical objectives.
This got me thinking about the most pretentious titles I have played over the years - games with ridiculously convoluted plots, weird objectives or pointlessly grandiose technical ambitions.
Chávez used to bully his opponents and disparage them, but he wrapped his attacks in an entertaining and grandiose flood of words on his strategic objectives in defense of the revolution.
So its main objective is to provide a grand tour of a humorously grandiose and showoffy world.
In order to achieve such complex objectives, what is needed are long-term policies and a grandiose revival of studies in the humanities and of a humanistic background on all levels (schools, universities, research, etc).
