Almost every character on Wednesday's episode of "The Americans" was on a mission to crack one electronic system or another — ARPANET, a polygraph, an electric fence, an early video-game console.
The European Union is on a mission to crack down on big tech companies such as Google, Twitter and Amazon, which are often accused of funneling EU sales through low-VAT Luxembourg.
The teenager from Grand Turk, who moved to Jamaica in 2008 because Hurricane Ike flattened his old school, and who has UK citizenship and a UK passport because Turks and Caicos is a British Overseas territory, failed in his mission to crack the championship record in that event.
The Dublin resident made it his mission to crack the riddle and he successfully designed a route that leads travelers across Dublin without passing a single pub.
He made it his mission to crack down on the rave scene, positioning himself against left-wing councillors like Olivia Chow (wife of late NDP leader Jack Layton), who attempted to stand up for the scene by comparing it to previous youth culture movements such as hippies in the 60s.
His ostensible mission is to crack a secret society of apolitical baddies, called Quantum; their key player, Dominic Greene, is played by French character actor Mathieu Amalric, a man with humorously crazy eyes and teeth of quasi-British dodginess.
Their mission was twofold: to crack the decades-long "curse of the billy goat" said to have kept the Cubs from a World Series win and to raise money for the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, a Seattle-based non-profit group.
The purpose of their mission, said Mr. Fischer, 44, is to crack the code of these fascinating and mysterious animals.
Alternatively, if the message was based on a code book designed specifically for a single operation or mission, then the code breakers were "unlikely" to crack it, the historian said.
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