Word: blackmailer
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...test, at Lop Nur in the northwestern Gobi Desert region of China, was a sign that Beijing too is irritated, specifically with what hard-liners in the regime consider blackmail, interference and pressure from the West. Amid intensified maneuvering to succeed ailing senior leader Deng Xiaoping, the conservatives have gained influence in the top echelons of government. Last May, President Jiang Zemin told the Politburo, in reference to U.S. human- rights pressures, that "we will not yield to hegemonism and power politics. For the motherland's sovereignty, independence and dignity, we are ready to pay a price." At the same...
...show biz is a part of every scandal. No sexual crime is so disturbing, no career blackmail so heinous, that it cannot be turned into career opportunities and comic mulch. Jackson had not been charged with so much as laying a glove on the boy, yet respected network news divisions were vying with tabloid TV to get the hot skinny. On CBS, This Morning co-anchor Paula Zahn interviewed a "reporter" for the sleaze show Hard Copy. In Britain the rumor rags were resplendent: sicko jacko, cried Thursday's Daily Star ("The Newspaper That Cares"); wacko jacko screamed...
...completed, the deal will create a video-retailing powerhouse accounting for about 99% of the industry's current total revenues. Together, the two networks reach more than 60 million cable subscribers nationwide. Their merger is also designed to facilitate a settlement of charges stemming from alleged kickbacks, blackmail and bribery at HSN, which is under investigation by the Internal Revenue Service and the Securities and Exchange Commission...
...escape extortion threats from what he calls the "communist mafia regime" in Belgrade. He says the government demanded more than $1 million in taxes that he had already paid, and has since seized $31 million worth of gasoline that he owned. "I left the country to avoid paying blackmail to the communist country for use for war purposes," he says. Moreover, he adds, he wanted to blow the whistle on government demands that he purchase nearly $1 billion worth of missiles and other arms. "I don't want to take part in something that is very dirty," he says...
Near the beginning of the meeting, Beys told the coun- cil that he had twice used the world "blackmail" in reference to Davidson's lobbying, once in the Crimson Sports Grille and then again in a council social committee meeting. But he said "I misused the word and I took it back in a formal setting...