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...control over "sunrise" industry profits; massive government investment in mass transit in health care, and "a transformation of the nature of active popular participation in the day-to-day running of the basic institutions of the economy and the society." All of this is to be enacted at the behest of a massive popular movement...
...clusters of small photocopying operations that taken collectively just might make up the largest university publisher in the nation. They reproduce large swatches of fiction and nonfiction, ad hoc anthologies of articles and book excerpts, academic texts and scientific papers, often with faculty approval and frequently at their behest. But in seeming violation of the 1976 U.S. Copyright Act, no royalties are usually paid to the authors or publishers of the original works. In an effort to get the academic community to stop copying off their pages, nine major U.S. publishers last week sued New York University, nine faculty members...
...beginning of the end for the sign came in 1979 when, at the behest of Governor Edward King, the company turned off the electricity as a symbolic energy-saving gesture. In October, Cities Service decided to dismantle the steadily deteriorating 60-ft.-high billboard, but when the wreckers arrived last month, the defenders of the beacon stopped the demolition. In April they had asked Boston's landmarks commission to declare that the structure should be preserved. Backers of the sign claimed it was a superb example of urban neon...
...mining-smelting plant in the northern Siberian city of Norilsk in 1958, he won high marks in the Kremlin for his skill in coordinating industrial development in the severe Arctic environment. Dolgikh was appointed party boss of his home base, the Krasnoyarsk region, in 1969, reportedly at the direct behest of Brezhnev. Three years later he was named a Central Committee secretary and has managed heavy industry for the party since...
...Jordan River have become a Holy Land to Jews, Muslims and Christians alike, containing shrines hallowed by all three faiths. The area, which is about half the size of Connecticut, has also been a battlefield since ancient times for warring tribes and nations. At Jehovah's behest, Abraham led his Jewish tribe from the deserts of what is now Iraq to these fertile valleys beside the Jordan, then known as Palestine, the land of the Philistines...