Word: blackmail
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...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...
...involved with an abusive lover who then became his business manager and stripped him of his self-respect-as well as thousands of dollars. In the book Louganis refers to him only as Tom, but in a lawsuit filed in 1989, after Louganis had been stalked and threatened with blackmail by his former lover, the man was identified as Jim Babbitt. By this time Babbitt already had AIDS, and Louganis had been tested. "Greg told me he had tested positive early in '88," O'Brien recalls. "I was devastated...
Apple Computer has accused top Microsoft executives of using blackmail tactics to try to force Apple to drop its copyright suit against Microsoft and to halt the development of competitive software. Threats to withhold the pre-release version of their new operating system, Windows 95, including two made by Microsoft chairman Bill Gates personally, were detailed in a Feb. 13 letter written by Apple chief executive Michael Spindler to U.S. District Judge Stanley Sporkin, who was reviewing Microsoft's antitrust settlement. The next day, Sporkin rejected the settlement, though he wrote that Apple's comments were not considered...