Word: blackmailer
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...Coalition for a Free South Africa, the group behind the barricade, can rest assured that Sovern will not encourage future campus disruptions by submitting to their blackmail. The activists encamped outside Hamilton Hall are obstructing more than just the activity of the college; they're blocking progress toward their own objective...
...mischief making in Latin America and Africa. They insist on cosponsoring with the U.S. any negotiated settlement in the Middle East, while they continue to back the most radical Arab enemies of Israel. In Western Europe, they are trying, by a combination of political blandishment and military blackmail, to diminish and, if possible, supplant American influence. Is that particular aspiration consistent with the principle of superpower equality? Absolutely, say the Soviets. The U.S.S.R. is a European nation; the U.S. is not. Therefore Soviet power "belongs" on the Continent; American power and missiles...
...just a lot of crap." Says Senator Howard Metzenbaum, an Ohio Democrat: "Pickens makes a crusade out of what he's doing because he can make a lot of money." Many critics have labeled Pickens a greenmailer, a charge he hotly denies. The term describes a type of corporate blackmail in which a big investor buys up stock and threatens to take over a company. His real intention, though, is solely to scare management so that it will buy back his shares at a price that is higher than the market value of the stock and thus not available...
...loan money available to farmers who might otherwise go broke before they can get their spring planting done. The most important business delayed was confirmation of Edwin Meese as Attorney General, which has already been on hold for a year. Robert Dole, the new Majority Leader, called the maneuver "blackmail" and testily declared, "If we start playing political games rather than responding to the real concerns of these issues, then we are finished." Shot back Democrat Tom Harkin of Iowa: "Those of us who are seeing thousands of our farmers go under . . . are not here to play political games...
...reverse-English start in selling this program by privately proposing a "contract" to influential Senators: their pledge to vote for the bill in return for the change in loan-guarantee rules that the Administration announced last week. The Senators not only refused but threw at him the same "blackmail" charge he later made to the Budget Committee. Serious debate on the farm bill will probably not begin until late summer, and then it will be enmeshed with the fight over the sweeping cuts in government spending for other domestic programs that the Administration is proposing. The outcome may depend...