Word: duress
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...They are under psychologica: duress. They come out just wanting to lick everyone like puppies," he says of the usually ferocious canines. "Once they sensed that they didn't find what they were looking for, they felt like they had failed their owners. [The owners] would enact phony successful rescues to try to cheer them...
Jewett, however, said that the Administrative Board had decided each student's case on the basis of whether the Financial Aid Office felt that the student would be able to meet the payment deadline without undue duress...
...more chimerical aspect of Elkies' musical life is his singing. In exactly which register is he most at home? "I have to sing bass in the Glee Club," he responds, adding that "I have sung tenor under duress, and alto under the influence!" His voice, however, is not Elkies' real forte: "It might still be conceivable [for me] to get a career as a professional musician, but not as a singer...
...rights of the individual. On the toughest and touchiest of legal ground, accused is pitted against accuser in a private realm where testimony is merely personal, and a victim's deposition is easily manipulated and abused without corroboration. Even written confession becomes meaningless because it is given under extreme duress where relief is desirable at any price. The accused fights to save name and face without offending societal standards, but there is no way to win. It's either sell out or lose out, and the weak save themselves while the good are persecuted...
...favor protests that raise the issuesimportant to me in the forefront of other people'sminds like the faculty and administration, ratherthan bullying the administration into makingdecisions they feel are under duress," Chong says...