Word: coercion
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...business leaders and even reformists within his own party demanded that Marcos devise and play by some new rules. Again, in theory, he obliged. In late February his parliament produced a fresh 37-page election code designed to protect candidates and voters alike from all forms of corruption and coercion...
...error, then a plaintiff is limited to suing for actual damages; if the publication refuses to retract the story, however, it is vulnerable to suits for punitive damages. Conference participants acknowledged that negotiating a retraction could be almost as complex as a trial. Moreover, retraction rules can resemble unconstitutional coercion, warned New York City Attorney James Goodale, a former vice chairman of the New York Times Co. Said he: "Journalists perceive mandatory-retraction regulations as a threat to free speech...
...Minneapolis bill, and that is what made it so audacious-and perverse. It manages the amazing feat of restoring censorship, which after all is a form of coercion, while at the same time claiming not to restrict rights but expand them...
...programs of existing centers like Harvard's, or the spirit in which they spontaneously decide that they want to meet together to invent their own programs. As educators meeting together, we show that we continue to have confidence in our values and processes and products. We survive crisis and coercion, the external evils, by creating these new communities. And the conversation within a community of teachers defeats our internal, occupational evils, hierarchy and solipsism. It gives us occasions to share our special laugh...
...ordered her confined in the county juvenile facility, where she was isolated in a 10-ft. by 12-ft. room furnished with a bed, toilet and sink. Deputy District Attorney Kenneth Kobrin said the detention was the equivalent of being "sent to her room." He added that the coercion was necessary to protect other children who might be examined by her stepfather, who is an Air Force physician...