Word: coercion
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...judges who have tried and unfortunately prosecuted resistors themselves have felt, the HRC has voted to "support registration, prosecution of those refusing to register, and the cutting of student aid to such individuals." It is said that in such an enlightened community as Harvard that students would insist upon coercion to prevent free expression...
That the HRC wishes to cut aid to students who have not registered is a primitive form of coercion. Even at Yale University, an institution of nearly equal reputation and academic quality as Harvard, the administration took it upon itself, before the need became acute, to pledge financial support and full compensation for any government aid lost because of their refusal to register for the draft. We of HRSSR applaud Yale's decision and strongly urge Harvard to adopt a similar policy...
...Stalin's secret-police chiefs. Working for Andropov, however, was his record of efficiently crushing religious, intellectual and national dissent; he once dismissed the dissident movement as "a skillful propaganda invention." Yet at the same time, he managed to make the country's leaders feel secure from Stalin-like coercion...
Beck's analysis of his increased commitment to the Church during freshman year provides a rare glimpse into one possible aspect of missions: that of implicit coercion. "My family had expected me to go on a mission since birth, and of course that was one of the reasons I started thinking about it." Beck says. "It's hard to say, but I think even if I hadn't gotten more deeply involved I would have done a mission." Peer and parental presure in favor of missions are great among Mormon communities...
...victory would require some court to create a new "right" for mistresses. Judges are almost always ginger about expanding legal rights--even when strong gut feelings are involved, especially when freaky facts are involved. The right would presumably be one allowing mistresses to be free from a lover's coercion in deciding whether to bear a child...