Word: behalf
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...Yorkers now say they would prefer state Attorney General Andrew Cuomo - another member of a famous political family, and a former cousin-by-marriage of Caroline Kennedy. A series of tense media appearances and an unusually aggressive behind-the-scenes lobbying campaign by New York power brokers on her behalf have helped damage Kennedy's once unimpeachable above-the-fray image. (See pictures of TIME's J.F.K. covers...
...Drew fire in the late 1990s for the work he and his law firm undertook on behalf of the tobacco lobby...
...vote." The U.N. resolution called for a cease-fire, which Israel and Hamas both ignored, but Israel's refusal made it the target of international outrage. The resolution, on which the Bush Administration abstained but declined to use its veto as it so often has done on Israel's behalf, also demanded that Israel open the border crossings into Gaza, and called for reconciliation between Fatah and Hamas, an option long opposed by Israel...
...this ordeal before--twice. In 1993 the Mexican spotted owl, which nests in the Lincoln forest, was declared threatened--a ruling that, combined with a slumping timber market, "killed the logging industry," according to Wood. And in 1999 an environmental group, the Center for Biological Diversity, began petitioning on behalf of the checkerspot, pointing out that it was at risk from development, off-road vehicles and livestock-grazing--or as Nicole Rosmarino, wildlife-program director of WildEarth Guardians, which joined the cause in 2007, puts it, "smelly cows, noisy ATVs and the din of chain saws...
...payments were due to the fact that he did not pay his Social Security and Medicare taxes when he worked as an employee of the International Monetary Fund in the early part of this decade. The IMF is an international organization and does not automatically withhold these taxes on behalf of its employees as U.S. companies do. IMF employees have to pay that portion of their tax bills themselves. Apparently figuring out what is owed is tricky stuff, and at least one accountant reportedly told Geithner he had made all necessary payments...