Word: blackmail
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...support in Round 2. But Marchais decreed that the Communists would refuse to vote Socialist in the runoff if they received no more than 21% in the first round. That was precisely the percentage that the polls were predicting for the Communists. It was simply an act of political blackmail, aimed at strengthening the Communist Party at the expense of the Socialists...
...complex personalities in their own right. There is Hedda's bumbling, self-important husband George Tesman; his well-meaning spinster aunt; the gifted and unbalanced Eilert Lovborg; the parasitically devoted Thea Elvsted Hedda's rival as Lovborg's muse; and the suave dissolute Judge Brack, whose cynical attempt to blackmail Hedda precipitates her defiant suicide...
...National Organization for Women's economic boycott against states rejecting the proposed Equal Rights Amendment [Nov. 14] is nothing short of political and economic blackmail. Whatever comes of its passage, the 27th Amendment should stand on its own merits and should not rely on scare tactics designed to intimidate rather than educate voters...
...ambitions is to be expected. A report released by the Boston Police Department last year documented widespread corruption and dereliction of duty among the police patrolling the Combat Zone. Prostitutes live in a very delicate coexistence with the law: no prostitute has formally charged any policeman with rape or blackmail even though, according to the report, such arts occur. Weeks says, "The police down the Zone get away clear. They take you in the paddy wagon and say, "If you blow me, I'll let you go," Doyle replies to these accusations by saying he will gladly check into...
Even more important, it would protect illegal immigrants from exploitation by making them legal. As of now, illegal aliens form a cheap, defenseless pool of workers, unprotected by American labor laws. As Secretary of Labor F. Ray Marshall has written, "Undocumented workers are subject to blackmail of every conceivable sort. If they complain to their employers about their paltry wages and their unsafe working conditions, they run the risk of being turned in by those owners to the INS." Almost slaves now, these people would gain, from Carter's proposal, the rights of American workers...