Word: behest
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...employees. Last year he cut almost $20 million in maintenance, food and advertising expenses. Deeper cuts might have seriously impaired passenger service. Halaby also unsuccessfully tried to eliminate a number of unprofitable routes to Latin America and the Caribbean that Juan Trippe had taken on partly at the behest of the State Department...
...Hughes had personally gone to Zurich to open the account. The more pertinent question: Was whoever opened it acting for Hughes, or for someone else? Even before last week, LIFE and McGraw-Hill had been troubled by some of the circumstances surrounding the account. At McGraw-Hill's behest, officials for the canton of Zurich were investigating the matter, and last week that investigation and others turned up some curious information...
They took the hint. Two days later, in an unusual televised session of the Croatian Central Committee, seven ranking leaders, including Dr. Dabčević-Kučar, confessed their shortcomings and handed in their resignations. At Tito's behest, one of his old associates from partisan days agreed to supervise the rebuilding of the Croatian party. He is Vladimir Bakarić, 59, who is a member of the Executive Bureau in Belgrade, which is the party's equivalent of a collective federal presidency. He favors greater economic and political autonomy for Croatia but within the framework...
Rizzo did. He made Shedd's "permissiveness" a major issue in his successful campaign for mayor this fall. Immediately after the election, Mayor James Tate at Rizzo's behest appointed two known opponents of Shedd's to the school board, thereby reducing the supporters of the superintendent to a minority. Last week, just before the board met to fire him, Shedd, 45, accepted the inevitable and resigned...
...when Chiang was kidnaped by a group of Nationalist officers who wanted to stop the anti-Communist campaign and unite against the Japanese invaders, he refused to bow. "If you want to shoot me," he said, "do so at once." He was finally released at the behest of a young Communist, Chou Enlai...