Word: coercion
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...Soviets found to their chagrin that "reform communism" is an oxymoron, and since coercion and state terror were the only gluing mechanism of the USSR, any reform experiment meant to give their socialism a "human face" was bound to destroy the very pillars of that system. It was the Czechs' and Slovaks' attempts to make sense of an alien ideology during 1968, however, and its eventual crushing by Soviet hardware, that infected the Soviet Union's politics 20 years later, leading to the sensational death of a bloody tyranny...
...military recruitment at its Office of Career Services (OCS). The ban, which exists because of the military's policy regarding homosexuals, is an important measure of protest that HLS should uphold. The loss of funding with which the law school is threatened is an act of aggressive financial coercion which inappropriately ties scholarship money to the school's right to uphold its on-campus non-discrimination policy...
...they took the stunned Lewinsky to a set of rooms and commenced an on-again, off-again interrogation that would last 10 hours. Starr's office said she was free to leave at any time, but her lawyer, William Ginsburg, said she was "restrained by mental coercion. She was crying and screaming and yelling...They told her if she left she'd be subject to immediate prosecution. This kid was beside herself." He described it as "a treatment for NYPD Blue." Throughout this ordeal, Lewinsky had no lawyer present...
Every experienced criminal lawyer knows what kind of testimony this brand of coercion can produce: a story tailored to secure the desired immunity without regard to whether that story is true, false or somewhere in between. The law books are filled with cases in which immunized witnesses lied because they believed that the prosecutor would given them immunity only in exchange for a story that helped him get a higher...
...recall any instances of administrative coercion," Ingram says...