Word: blacklist
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...arrested him on several occasions and sent him back: the last time he was put in a North Korean labor camp for repeat offenders. He and his older brother overpowered the guard and ran away, Kim says, a serious crime in the rigidly controlled country. He is on another blacklist, too. Through contacts with South Korean missionaries, Kim has become a Christian, which increases his problems. Pyongyang forbids citizens from freely practicing any religion. "This time I would have no chance of getting out of jail," he says...
...Concerned about possible OECD sanctions and mindful of how being on the list could hurt business, the Manx government offered some concessions on issues like transparency. To general relief, the island has just heard it will not appear on a new blacklist due in July. Just the same, says Cashen smoothly, "Our commitment is qualified. We are prepared to change certain of our regimes provided there is an international level playing field, but we're not going to proceed unless others do." Those others, he says, must include OECD members, particularly Switzerland and Luxembourg...
...answer it, but if I did, I would hate myself in the morning." It became a memorable line, and it makes an appropriate title for Lardner's breezy, engaging memoir, I'd Hate Myself in the Morning (Nation Books; 198 pages; $22.95). Reams have been written about the Hollywood blacklist and the witch hunts of the late '40s and early '50s. Lardner was a notable victim of all this, not only serving a prison term for contempt of Congress but also finding himself barred for more than a decade from working for the major U.S. studios. He does not, however...
...potential risk for companies that ignored the union would far outweigh the risk incurred by students who joined. The very worst that could happen to students is that recruiters would blacklist them, and they would never work in consulting or investment banking again. Instead, we'd all be forced to become teachers or do something else socially redeeming. The average Yale or Harvard senior has unparalleled opportunities, though, and the threat of never working in consulting shouldn't really be too meaningful. Besides, blacklisting is illegal...
...hanged in a fortnight," quipped essayist Samuel Johnson, "it concentrates his mind wonderfully." For Liechtenstein, the tiny banking haven snuggled on Switzerland's eastern border, concentration seemed in order last June. After years of cajoling, the world's richest nations had placed the principality on a blacklist of countries that failed to adopt sufficiently tight rules to deter money laundering. Although no specific misdeeds were mentioned, the designation by the Financial Action Task Force on Money Laundering would have made dealings with those countries difficult for major foreign banks. Banking and related services account for 40% of Liechtenstein's economy...