Word: blackmail
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...OCCUPATION: promoting celebrities BEST PUNCH: In an on-air rebuttal claimed the band had never been confirmed; said she would not give in to "blackmail" and called band leader Doug Harkness "ingenious" but of questionable ethics...
This should not have to be a problem. Law schools are perfectly within their rights to keep discriminatory employers off campus and it is inappropriate for the government to blackmail law school into lending their support to such discrimination. If the Pentagon is interested in recruiting graduates of top law schools, maybe it should look into changing its won "don't ask, don't tell" policy, instead of trying to force universities to compromise their principles...
...good thinking behind this tradition is the desire for verdicts that are uninfluenced by bribery, harassment and blackmail. Of course, the risk of improper influence is especially great when the president is on trial, as President Andrew Johnson's impeachment trial demonstrated...
...Musa Arafat, the chairman's cousin, and members of Fatah, Arafat's faction in the Palestine Liberation Organization. Musa Arafat's men had ransacked a Fatah office, and the provocation touched off a furious response, fed by growing frustration with the Palestinian Authority, which has a record of torture, blackmail and rampant corruption...
...enough to make everyone pay attention. Most U.S. experts believe the nukes are under tight control so far, yet there are doubters. While it's unlikely that a military commander would see any benefit in launching one, there are other possibilities. A rogue general might try some nuclear blackmail for a big payoff. Or a nuclear unit, unpaid for months, might decide to quietly sell off something for a profit. It wouldn't have to be one of the closely guarded strategic weapons either. There are thousands of small ones and tons of fissile material lying around. Such nightmares alone...