Word: behest
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...More Snapping. Vorster has even taken a few hesitant steps toward easing apartheid. At his behest, three new apartheid bills have been taken off the docket of the current session of Parliament, and the government last week amended the old Verwoerd ban on interracial sports to permit South Africa to send an integrated team to the 1968 Olympics. Vorster also created something of a stir last month by receiving a trade delegation from the black African nation of Malawi with full honors (including limousines driven by white chauffeurs), entertained Prime Minister Leabua Jonathan of the tiny new state of Lesotho...
...months to nine years away to public services." Neustadt emphasized, however, that the Institute would not accept any government contract work, and would take on problems in the study groups that interested its members. In other words, the Institute would avoid the position of acting at the government's behest...
...marching toward the center of town. Police headed them off and arrested six leaders of the march. Then an even more curious thing happened. Last week the workers staged a sitdown strike to protest the arrests-and won. Before the strike was five hours old, the police, at the behest of the Labor Ministry, dropped charges against all six labor leaders and released them...
Merge & Modernize. At De Gaulle's behest, Economics Minister Michel Debre has begun to push a broad plan to energize industry, argues that "we have no choice but to become competitive." The government has granted $600 million in low-interest loans to steel firms on the condition that they merge and modernize. The government has also helped to bring about more than 50 corporate mergers this year, notably in the metals, textiles and electronics industries. Hoping to enlarge the capital supply and to make Paris a world financial center on the order of London or New York, the Cabinet...
...courage is undisputed. The sales tax enacted at his behest violated his 1962 campaign pledge, but he needed it to implement progressive programs. Rockefeller also bucked vociferous upstate-Republican opposition to push through New York's Medicaid program, an expansion of the 1965 Medicare Act on a statewide basis, which is a model for all states...