Word: coercion
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...make several persuasive points. She charges that college feminists, in their zeal to raise awareness about date rape, have given new life to an old stereotype: the innocent woman who must be constantly protected from men's dangerous sexuality. Definitions of date rape, she contends, now include circumstances ("verbal coercion") that trivialize real acts of sexual violence. Regretted indiscretions of the night before, Roiphe insists, cannot become rape the morning after...
...definition defines rape as "any act of sexual intercourse that takes place against a person's will or that is accompanied by physical coercion or the threat of bodily injury...
...Date rape is any act of sexual intercourse that takes place against a person's will or that is accompanied by physical coercion or the threat of bodily injury...
...statement defines rape as "any act of sexual intercourse that takes place against a person's will or that is accompanied by physical coercion or the threat of bodily injury...
Though Bill Clinton has, as yet, no settled policy on trade, the signs are that he wants to enforce restrictions--and that he will be a lot more forceful than his relatively accommodating predecessor, George Bush. Where necessary, that will mean using coercion to demand better access to foreign markets for American exporters. And nowhere is such an approach more necessary, many of Clinton's advisers say, than in dealing with Japan--whose trade surplus with America is growing, and whose leaders are not to be trusted. To get results in Japan, the argument goes, toothless multilateral pacts...