Word: behest
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...tobacco-industry executives standing shoulder to shoulder, swearing up and down that their products are not addictive. Then, last week, the laboratory rats testified otherwise -- by way of two researchers, Victor DeNoble and Paul Mele. Before the committee, the duo outlined years of secretive addiction experiments done at the behest of Philip Morris in the 1980s, work that was later allegedly suppressed...
...saddened. Just days before the Virginia incident, Ol' Blue Eyes went misty as he was honored with a special "Legend" award during the annual Grammy Awards ceremony. In a move that had television audiences scratching their heads, CBS abruptly cut away from his rambling, emotional remarks, apparently at the behest of his own handlers...
...Whitewater affair took its first high-profile Administration victim on Saturday when White House counsel Bernard Nussbaum tendered his resignation to Bill Clinton. Nussbaum was one of nine Clinton aides and Treasury Department officials upon whom the FBI served subpoenas at the behest of Whitewater special counsel Robert Fiske. Others included Harold Ickes, deputy chief of staff, and Margaret Williams, chief of staff for Hillary Rodham Clinton. The subpoenas followed damaging revelations of briefings between Treasury officials knowledgeable about a federal investigation of the Clintons' role in the Whitewater scandal and White House aides. The departure of Nussbaum, previously criticized...
...deal with Senate Republican leaders to exchange his resignation for assurances that no further legal action would be taken against him. By Friday evening there were new reports: Packwood had shelved that plan after he was served with a subpoena on his way to the Senate floor at the behest of the Justice Department's public-integrity section. A Justice official said the subpoena "may have inadvertently knocked things off track," but denied that the department had acted with any intention of thwarting a deal between Packwood and his Senate colleagues. "It's just a stroke of lousy timing...
Finally, Liem must go. Two weeks of glasnost do not make up for six months of fear. He did what he had to do at the behest of the Administration. His past favoritism for the Li brothers and his past witchhunts for people who spoke out on the issue cannot be forgotten. It is our hope that Liem will see the writing on the wall and retire gracefully to his lab. Failing that, the Harvard administration should learn a few lessons itself and force Liem...