Word: blackmailing
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...money." If the Administration did relent and help farmers to get loans renewed, he added, it would be in the hope of winning votes for the sweeping rewrite of farm-price-support policies that Reagan is about to propose. Said Stockman: "Basically we are threatened with a kind of blackmail...
...guerrillas, the partnership with Salvadoran laborers offers more than a windfall profit from economic blackmail. There is no evidence that the Liberation Front charges workers a fee for its bargaining "services," but involving themselves in the wage negotiations adds to the rebels' political weight. Last November the rebels began distributing leaflets in one of their mountainous northern strongholds, Chalatenango department, urging local peasants who travel south for the coffee harvest to band together for negotiating purposes. At about the same time, a full-page advertisement appeared in a newspaper in the capital, San Salvador, putting forth wage and working demands...
Some Wall Streeters accused Pickens of "greenmail," the business world's version of blackmail. In a greenmail deal, an investor buys a large enough chunk of a company's stock to pose a takeover threat in the hope that its management will buy the shares at a premium. Pickens denies being a greenmailer, saying that he made a sincere bid to take over Phillips and that all company shareholders will benefit from his actions because the value of their stock will rise. The most venerable greenmail victim of 1984 was Mickey Mouse. Saul Steinberg, a New York City financier, bought...
There is a danger in asking children to accuse an adult of child molesting. Any smart youngster with a sadistic bent and practical mind will find the opportunity to blackmail a loving uncle by reporting an imagined abuse...
...sees no possibility of a cutoff, it still wants no talk about any thing that could threaten the large quantities of Polish coal that it needs in order to help keep its power stations running this winter. And Moscow is highly sensitive to charges that it uses energy for blackmail. Embargo or no, the fact that the Soviets made the threat gives West European governments good reason to recall the Reagan Administration's past warnings: that their increased dependency on Soviet natural gas makes them vulnerable to Moscow's threats...