Word: blackmail
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Dole responded with heavy artillery. Both sides admit she got a phone call from campaign manager Scott Reed. She says he threatened her with blackmail. Dole's camp denies that, calling her "hysterical." But the incident played into Huffington's hand, showing the Dole campaign overreacting to a mere newspaper column. "She's married to a rich man," sputtered Dole campaign spokesman Nelson Warfield, "and if that's the criterion, Zsa Zsa Gabor should be on the Sunday talk shows." Her seriousness has also been questioned on account of her past association with California cult leader John-Roger...
...short, the coalition's petition will probably go nowhere. But, says intellectual-property attorney Michael Gollin, it does "go to the higher question of what should we be doing on a societal level to share benefits. Is there a way to create some kind of compensation, not as blackmail or to stop products from being developed, but to promote development of biological resources in a sustainable...
...hurricane starts the scavengers crawling. Edie Marsh, sexy in her shoplifted wardrobe, has spent several months trolling for Kennedys, hoping to extract a little ladylike blackmail. But the Kennedy season is just about over; most of the clan has moved on to Hyannis. When the big storm blows substandard roofs off half of Dade County's ranchettes, Edie and her business partner branch out into insurance fraud. Soon the lizards are frisking: sleazy developers, mendacious salesmen, crooked building inspectors, clueless and boorish tourists. These sorry folk are what is called the fabric of society. Hiaasen's good guys...
...male has only two choices: accept or refuse. If he accepts, her attention can obviously not be called "unwanted"; there has been no sexual harassment. In this scenario, if indeed she gains power through sexual favor; both parties may have violated hiring policies and both may be vulnerable to blackmail and the like, but sexual harassment has no part in the indiscretion...
...finding" it, and I think that's a substantive difference. Lewin did not create the log file, nor did he manipulate it in order to allow himself or other students to see what was in it. Students other than Lewin had seen the file, and the tremendous potential for blackmail was acknowledged by almost everyone involved...