Word: behest
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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...imparts some remarkable tale. Sure enough, he finds a strange old man there named Monk Hesseltine who quivers at the mention of Bechuanaland and turns white at the sight of a truffle. When Hesseltine is murdered by a poisoned arrow, Perelman becomes involved in his mysterious past at the behest of Hesseltine's beauteous neice, Cosima. Needless to say, Perelman solves the mystery, which involves vengeful Bushmen and blackmail of the French truffle industry, and gets the beautiful Cosima...
...Lebanon's behest, the United Nations Security Council met quickly to consider censuring Israel. Lost on none was the fact that Israel had gone into Lebanon for much the same reason that the U.S. had gone into Cambodia -to clean out enemy sanctuaries. This put the U.S. in an uncomfortable diplomatic position. Secretary of State William P. Rogers admitted at his Washington press conference that military action was regrettable, but he added: "You have to consider the causes." The Security Council nevertheless flatly turned down a U.S. amendment critical of all parties to the Israel-Lebanon dispute. Only Britain...
...share to last week's 28⅜. Last year the Securities and Exchange Commission accused company officials of manipulating the stock and making misleading statements about proposed mergers. For a while, Parvin/ Dohrmann stock was suspended from trading. The SEC claimed that, at the behest of Company Chairman Delbert Coleman, Parvin/Dohrmann had paid Washington influence-peddler Nathan Voloshen $50,000 in a vain attempt to raise the ban. In February, Coleman resigned and trading was resumed. Parvin/ Dohrmann reported a profit of $10.2 million for last year, compared with a $618,000 loss in 1968. Its casinos made...
...Gabriel Kolko of the State University of New York at Buffalo, the Progressive Era represented not the bridling of predatory big business by the Federal Government but rather the capture of Government by business. In The Triumph of Conservatism, Kolko argues that most Government regulation was enacted at the behest of leading corporations, which wanted railroad legislation, meat inspection or fair-trade laws to save them from increasingly anarchic competition. They lost no time gaining control of regulatory commissions like the ICC that were intended to supervise their activities...