This probably points towards the need for modifying these statements for future assessments and scale development exercises.
Those descriptions, published at the end of Giuliani's first term, sound almost like a mission statement for the future mayor, who went on to wrest control of the schools from the old Board of Education, ban smoking and trans fats, raise property taxes by nearly twenty per cent, close firehouses, and shut down Broadway to car traffic.
It's another episode in which Don gets to see himself through other people's eyes: first Melanie; then Roger, who casually delegates the job of coming up with a quick Gettysburg address-style mission statement for the future of the company – that's the sort of thing he thinks Don can whip up before lunch, surely.
Scottish first minister Alex Salmond has launched his government's independence blueprint, calling it a "mission statement" for the future.
Scottish first minister Alex Salmond has launched his government's independence blueprint, along with his deputy Nicola Sturgeon, describing it as a "mission statement" for the future.
With the recent release of a 3D channel model for the study of elevation beamforming and full-dimension multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) [41], the 3GPP has made a clear statement for the future of wireless network modeling.
(Sigh. When will we see McDonalds or the other unlimited numbers of fast-food "junk food purveyors" truthfully declare this, too, as their vision and mission statement for our future generations?).
The project is funded by the London Legacy Development Corporation, which says it is a statement of intent about the hoped-for future direction of the Olympic legacy.
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