Word: blackmail
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...Sunday Telegraph raised the possibility that Foster's debts might also have made him an assassination target for shady business associates. It reported that last year Foster was involved in a court case in which he accused two men of blackmail after a land deal in Cyprus fell through. The defendants accused Foster of making up the allegation to cover up an attempt to have the pair assaulted...
...Chad does have a plan. He's come across a disc containing Cox's notes toward a mem-wah, and he brings Linda into the notion of calling Cox to return the disc; maybe the grateful owner will give them a small reward. Cox misinterprets Chad's call as blackmail, and rears up to snort and neigh at the do-gooders. That brings Harry into the plot, and things devolve from there...
...decades he helped more than 200,000 people leave East Germany, including American pilot Gary Powers, whose release he infamously arranged in exchange for Soviet spy Rudolph Ivanovich Abel. Though Vogel considered himself a humanitarian, his reputation was tarnished after the Cold War ended and he was convicted of blackmail. Upon appeal, he was cleared--and his benevolent reputation restored...
...That policy - instituted on the basis that gay officials might be vulnerable to blackmail - was lifted at the start of the 1990s, but perceptions of Whitehall as a place where it's better to stay in the closet have been harder to shift. "All we're doing is making sure as a prospective employer we're spreading our net as wide as possible to attract the best possible candidates who fully represent the diversity of U.K. society," says a senior Whitehall source. Summerskill suggests that gay candidates may even have an advantage over straight rivals. "If you have grown...
...government funds. Even if, as analysts expect, Taiwan doesn't offer Paraguay the full $71 million, by going, Ma risks being seen as continuing the practice of bribing impoverished nations in Latin America and Africa for their support. "Ma should not expose himself to this kind of open blackmail," says Loh I-Cheng, Taiwan's former ambassador to South Africa...