Word: blackmail
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...referendum would have our elected representatives censure Israel for its actions rather than using American influence to bring both sides of the conflict together in negotiations. Calling for a complete cut-off of American aid to Israel is a blackmail tactic not befitting of reasoned foreign policy. Referenda should be for constructive purposes, not for partisan manipulation. It would be more productive for us to call on Israel to change its methods and start pushing for peace, than to cut off all effective ties with...
Organized crime first began to flourish on a large scale during the Brezhnev years in what has come to be known as the "shadow economy." Underground businessmen, who amassed wealth by siphoning off funds from the state budget for lucrative private ventures, proved an easy target for blackmail by small- time thugs. After gangsters began to demand "protection" money, a deal was reportedly cut at a conference in the northern Caucasus in the mid-1970s, with the illegal millionaires agreeing to pay 10% of their income to the crime lords...
...peril." "He's a national treasure," says Author Isaac Asimov. Randi's targets are less enthusiastic. A Popoff staff member calls him "the devil" and an atheist. He has been the object of hate-mail campaigns by some of his foes. All to no avail. Says Randi: "No blackmail, no threats, can cause me to back away from my chosen work...
...Smith as the Politician (who is supposed to be Sen. Joseph McCarthy) gives new meaning to the word corrupt. His Southern drawl oozes with slime and blackmail. Despite his choir boy looks and white summer suit, he has the moral code of a modern-day Mephistopheles...
...been smuggled out of the U.S.-administered center in recent years. Dealers in Nazi memorabilia have offered some papers for prices ranging from $120 to $2,950. Others have shown up in auction houses in Hamburg, Munich and London. Police fear that some files may have been used to blackmail former Nazis trying to recast their lives...