Word: behest
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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There's more evidence that Saddam Hussein tried to kill George Bush during the former President's victory lap through Kuwait last month. An Iraqi being held in Kuwait told FBI investigators he led an assassination team at the behest of Baghdad...
...unfillable shoes. Dave is the owner of a soft- (not to say bleeding-) hearted employment agency whose uncanny resemblance to The Man has led to a nice little sideline, impersonating him first at the openings of car dealerships and other lowball promotional fests, then, at the Secret Service's behest, at a real presidential function...
...President Reagan kigned the National Minimum Drinking Age Act. The bill, also known as Section 158, denied federal highway funds to any state which did not raise its drinking age to 21. Within three years, all fifty states were in compliance. Section 158 was written and passed at the behest of groups like MADD (Mothers Against Drunk Driving) who saw raising the drinking age as an integral part of their campaign to crack down on drunk driving...
...evident that his ambitions to help shape the architecture of a new world order have run into trouble. Under his stewardship, the U.N. has dramatically expanded its peacekeeping mandate -- only to find itself stymied, even rejected, on several of its recent initiatives. Though the Secretary- General acts at the behest of the Security Council, he is being saddled with much of the blame. Rightly or wrongly, the Secretary-General has, in ^ effect, become the lightning rod for dissatisfaction with the U.N. and, more generally, for widespread frustration at the way in which nationalist ambitions and ethnic hostilities are threatening...
...grow. Formed in 1981 by 14 Miami businessmen, it lists 254,000 families as members and is opening new chapters in 10 cities across the U.S. as well as in Mexico City, Madrid and Moscow. Chairman Mas travels the world to urge governments to isolate Castro; at Mas' behest two years ago, the Czechs stopped representing Cuba in Washington. To encourage Moscow to cut its remaining trade ties with the island, he even offered the foundation's help in subsidizing Russia's sugar purchases elsewhere...