Word: coercion
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...publishing world. After several weeks of growing protests, St. Martin's Press announced that it had canceled its planned release next month of British historian David Irving's biography Goebbels: Mastermind of the Third Reich. St. Martin's chairman Thomas J. McCormack denied that his house had succumbed to "coercion," which included a swelling tide of unfavorable press stories, criticism from the Anti-Defamation League of B'nai B'rith and, according to some employees, telephoned death threats. Instead, McCormack said, a few of the protesters had prompted him to take a closer look at Irving and his book...
...home it would require the use of force, real coercion, for the government to renationalize industries, reimpose price controls and take over the banks. It is not obvious that a Zyuganov government would have that kind of power and authority. "I just happen to think it's impossible," says a senior official in the U.S. State Department. To the extent it is possible, the most likely result would be a domestic disaster--hyperinflation, unemployment and a devalued ruble...
...China fears the precedent this election will set," said Lee. "Coercion and intimidation by China will not bring Taiwan to its knees. Military action will only foster more anti-China sentiment...
...after discovering that Christy by then had already undergone the initial marrow harvest. "We should not have taken her halfway into the stream without being prepared to take her all the way across," he says. He insists that the decision was his alone, and not the result of any coercion from Health...
...next scene opens on the day before Christmas in George's home in Los Angeles, where Zahedi's teenage half-brother Amin refuses to do the movie unless Zahedi pays him more money. A flustered Zahedi wavers between angry coercion and pleading persuasion, only to be saved by his father, who agrees to pay Amin out of his own pocket...