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...started this work about 20 years ago at the behest of my wife, who said that some of the young people I know should be done justice to through a description of their lives," Coles said...
This means that HUPD immediately responds to all campus incidents, and CPD usually responds shortly after, either at the behest of HUPD or in response to calls by observant Cantabrigians...
...type. Prince Charles turned out to be a good guy after all, and AOL's Steve Case made nice with CompuServe employees. The world's largest Communist country came out in favor of privatization, while the underdog nation of Scotland voted to give itself a Parliament ? and at the behest of an English Prime Minister, too. There was a refreshing whiff of honesty in the air: Steven Biko's killers admitted their crime, and Pentagon Top Brass said Army sex scandals were a product of poor leadership. Even the doctor who once championed the disgraced weight-loss drug Redux...
Even by the standards of beltway largesse, the arrangement was breathtakingly generous. In April the Federal Communications Commission, at the behest of Congress, handed out prized space on public airwaves to the nation's television broadcasters, space that would have fetched the public as much as $70 billion at auction. The broadcasters got better than a good deal on the new frequencies (effectively, a second channel for each of the nation's 1,500 TV stations). They got them for free. "The largest single grant of public property to a single industry in this generation," grumbles FCC chairman Reed Hundt...
...Bitterly opposed to the worldwide chemical-weapons ban, Helms relented during Albright's pilgrimage to Wingate and let the treaty proceed to a Senate vote, where it was ratified. Although Helms feels toward the United Nations about as warmly as he does toward gays and lesbians, at Albright's behest he is working on a bill to pay $819 million in back dues that the U.S. owes...