Word: blackmailed
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...have on the Middle East--and the penetrating effect it would have on the Palestinians, moderate and radical alike. Such a stance would tell the Palestinian leadership that it finally had to choose. It could no longer wink at, make tacit alliances with, periodically unleash and generally use as blackmail the terrorists in their midst. It would finally have to choose between violence and peace...
...potential is there for some form of nukenapping--grabbing weapons for ransom or nuclear blackmail--or sales to rogue states or terrorists, or unauthorized launches by renegade commanders. Some Russians even fret about a nuclear civil war. If a region in Siberia were to declare its independence, a retired senior officer in Moscow speculates, "the entire missile force in the area might cut itself off from the chain of command and control and get reprogrammed to be able to launch at will...
...view goes something like this: Beijing believes it can export whatever it wants while barring imports on any pretext it chooses. It can undercut other manufacturing nations by the use of cheap labor. It can steal ideas and ignore copyrights without much risk of retaliation. And it can essentially blackmail multinational companies into transferring jobs and technology as the price of cracking open a market of 1.2 billion people. Taken together, those practices help account for the tripling of the U.S. trade deficit with China since Clinton took office, to $40 billion a year. In 1995, Intel chief Andy Grove...
...range of reactions is interesting. There is the usual rolling of the eyes by the kind of Anti-Semite Lite who regards any mention of the Holocaust ("Not again!") as a bore and a kind of chronic blackmail, a moral collection racket. In an entirely different way, there are also Israelis who object to Holocaust remembering, because they think it a sign of weakness or at least of unproductive obsession. Some Jews who favor pressing the case against Swiss banks recall a bitter joke: in czarist Russia, two Jews are lined up against the wall to be shot; the captain...
...felt that his slain son Ennis wanted him to return to work. "His spirit from there wouldn't allow us to walk off and be anything other than he wants," said Cosby. He conceded that he'd had an affair with the woman whose daughter was trying to blackmail him, but said he didn't think he was the father...