Word: blackmailed
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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This surging popularity has provided the owners with a new weapon in their already bristling arsenal: blackmail. First, a "struggling" team announces that it's home city no longer provides the support it needs to stay in town. Then it begins to court the many hungering municipalities which lack franchises of their own and are willing to promise the moon for a prospective pro team...
Speaking in a televised interview last week, French Premier Jacques Chirac declared that "we have no intention of giving in to blackmail." In an obvious reference to French warships headed for the gulf, Chirac vowed that "we will intervene" if Iran launched a military attack. Yet Chirac's room for maneuver is sharply limited. Any French military action could endanger the lives of the embassy captives in Tehran and the five French hostages held in Lebanon...
...January the Pentagon expanded its rules to compel service personnel, civilian workers and contract employees with clearances to divulge whether they have engaged in such sexual acts as adultery, sodomy and incest. The rules are intended to ensure that those with access to secrets are not vulnerable to blackmail...
Some critics object that most security problems occur not through sexual blackmail but bribery. Others protest that the new rules may violate civil liberties. Homosexuals will be eligible to get or retain clearances, says a Pentagon spokesman, if there is no threat of blackmail or vulnerability to coercion...
...Gary follows these rules, then he should have a happy, healthy sexual relationship free from trauma, blackmail, and lingering death. If he does not, he may run into trouble...