Word: blackmail
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...diaries included entries that could lay bare the sextracurricular activities of at least two other legislators -- including a Senator's divorce and his "extended affair" with a staff member, and a liaison between a Senate aide and a member of the House leadership. Last week when colleagues shouted "Blackmail!" Packwood coolly responded on the Senate floor, "I have no intention of ever using it for blackmail, graymail or anything else, but I want the Senate to clearly understand that it is the ethics committee that has demanded the production of the pages...
...contrast, Yeltsin has sought to safeguard Russia's relations with the West by more subtle muscle-flexing. Economic blackmail and "rouge" army units have been his weapons to coerce the former republics into the Moscowdominated Commonwealth of Independent States. He seems willing to allow Russia's neighbors to retain the trappings of sovereignty, provided Moscow has the final say on important policy questions...
...test, at Lop Nur in the northwestern Gobi Desert region of China, was a sign that Beijing too is irritated, specifically with what hard-liners in the regime consider blackmail, interference and pressure from the West. Amid intensified maneuvering to succeed ailing senior leader Deng Xiaoping, the conservatives have gained influence in the top echelons of government. Last May, President Jiang Zemin told the Politburo, in reference to U.S. human- rights pressures, that "we will not yield to hegemonism and power politics. For the motherland's sovereignty, independence and dignity, we are ready to pay a price." At the same...
...show biz is a part of every scandal. No sexual crime is so disturbing, no career blackmail so heinous, that it cannot be turned into career opportunities and comic mulch. Jackson had not been charged with so much as laying a glove on the boy, yet respected network news divisions were vying with tabloid TV to get the hot skinny. On CBS, This Morning co-anchor Paula Zahn interviewed a "reporter" for the sleaze show Hard Copy. In Britain the rumor rags were resplendent: sicko jacko, cried Thursday's Daily Star ("The Newspaper That Cares"); wacko jacko screamed...
...completed, the deal will create a video-retailing powerhouse accounting for about 99% of the industry's current total revenues. Together, the two networks reach more than 60 million cable subscribers nationwide. Their merger is also designed to facilitate a settlement of charges stemming from alleged kickbacks, blackmail and bribery at HSN, which is under investigation by the Internal Revenue Service and the Securities and Exchange Commission...