Word: behest
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...panel was convened at the behest of the U.S. Congress in 1996 and produced its report in October after considering 61new mathematics programs...
According to independent tests conducted under the behest of the Alewife Study Group in 1995, the site is estimated to have between 631,000 and 1.2 million pounds of asbestos buried...
...aftermath of a string of club closings to non-members--all at the behest of graduate boards--final club members say a change is coming...
...born into a poor family in the rural South 75 years ago. When her mother died, the teenage Freddie Mae left for the North, seeking work as a domestic. After a lifetime of caring for others--children and old people--she started talking into a tape recorder at the behest of a writer friend named Gloria Bley Miller, recalling what it was like to grow up in a big family in a little house with no indoor plumbing; to pick cotton; to live in "jivey" 1940s Harlem. Miller edited the reminiscences, and Baxter's unique voice so impressed editors...
...return to negotiations. But no one believes Milosevic will simply sign on to the agreement that the Kosovars have accepted. No, there would have to be new conditions about the terms of autonomy for Kosovo and how the peace would be kept. Any changes made at Milosevic's behest would predictably give the Kosovars furious fits. And if Kosovo has turned into a killing field, as some aid agencies last week were insisting it has, then stability may be a 10- or 15-year project...