Word: behests
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...performed for the children of former dictator Ne Win, who were arrested in March on charges of plotting a coup against the current leadership. His family background has worked in his favor. His mother was a professional singer of traditional folk music. His grandfather, at the behest of General Aung San, Suu Kyi's father and the leader of Burma's independence movement more than half a century ago, wrote a song called When the Army Is Strong, the People Are Strong. It is still played at military functions. As a child, Zaw Win Htut listened to Black Sabbath...
...behest of Ivy League presidents, the league’s athletic directors are considering broad transformations to the athletic recruiting process. But one of the proposals being studied by the athletic directors—decreasing the number of athletic recruits—would be an unnecessary mistake and would endanger many of Harvard’s quality athletic programs. On the other hand, raising the minimum standard under which recruits are admitted—a proposal mentioned by Harvard Director of Athletics Robert L. Scalise in a recent interview—would be a sound and prudent move...
...minute, he may be interested in catching up on the Wetlaufer canon. In 1992 she wrote a novel titled Judgment Call, based on her experiences as a reporter at the Miami Herald. In the book, a young reporter has an affair with a teenage hit man at the behest of a drug lord. Of even more interest may be a 1999 article Wetlaufer wrote for HBR containing a hypothetical case study in which a married CEO's louche ways with female employees end up in the gossip columns and cause trouble for his board of directors. In the article, Wetlaufer...
...ingrates at the Motion Picture Association of America, whose members prefer to handle their own promotion, see things differently. At the behest of the U.S., Taiwanese police last week tracked down the computer servers that housed Movie88 and, in a highly publicized raid, shut the site down. Authorities said Tan was clearly breaking Taiwanese copyright laws. "This is Taiwan's year to crack down on intellectual property theft," says Lu Wen-hsiang, a senior official in the Ministry of Economic Affairs...
...Committee.) And when Enron was trying to sell its interest in the Indian project, the New York Daily News reported, Vice President Dick Cheney raised the issue in a meeting last June with Indian opposition leader Sonia Gandhi. The White House says he was acting not at Enron's behest but on the need to protect $640 million in federal money...