Re: Web:Introduction: Rename "Our Goal" box (issue 48430043)

[Phil Holmes]

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From: "Phil Holmes" <address@hidden>
To: "Urs Liska" <address@hidden>; "Carl Peterson" 
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Subject: Re: Web:Introduction: Rename "Our Goal" box (issue 48430043)


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> From: "Urs Liska" <address@hidden>
>
> > > I believe I had suggested "purpose." I realize that's not much better
> > > than goal/mission, but it's less corporate than "mission," and is more
> > > focused on why we exist than what we think we've accomplished (as goal
> > > and objective are), in my opinion.
> > >
> > > Carl P.
> >
> > Yes I recall that. For me this somehow sounds wrong - but again that may 
> > be due to my non-native "ear".
> > Phil, what do you think about "purpose"?
> >
> > Urs
>
>
> To me, it's a very uninspiring word.  NASA had a goal of landing a man on 
> the moon (http://history.nasa.gov/moondec.html).  Its purpose was much 
> more mundane.
>
> --
> Phil Holmes

Found the quote: "I believe that this nation should commit itself to 
achieving the goal, before this decade is out, of landing a man on the moon 
and returning him safely to the earth."

http://www.jfklibrary.org/JFK/JFK-Legacy/NASA-Moon-Landing.aspx

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Phil Holmes