Word: duress
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...study carrel and grab shelter. Grades once high are falling fast. So, remind me why I took that class. Am I stuck in a huge morass? Or did the CUE Guide say I could pass? Now the Lamont air was filled with stress as students crammed under duress. We wanted to go to bed, but there were ten books yet unread. And as we tried to learn ID's, to avoid earning dreaded C's, we cursed students who were at ease the day midterms arrived...
...part of the experiment, subjects were pressured to respond to questions asked under extreme duress, with bright lights and cameras pointed at them and electrodes attached to their bodies...
...Lebanon, meanwhile, an offensive by Hezbollah had by Monday sliced Israel's southern Lebanon occupation zone in half, leaving hundreds of Israeli-allied militiamen stranded as the guerrillas pressed their attack to ensure that the Israelis are seen to be retreating under duress. The Lebanese guerrilla outfit is being championed throughout the Arab world as the first army ever to liberate Arab territory from Israel by force of arms, but nowhere more so than among the Palestinian youths venting their frustration with stones and gasoline bombs. In response to their, and Hezbollah?s efforts, Barak at the weekend recalled...
...keep her campaign for Governor afloat. "My reaction was utter disbelief," she says. "I was put under extraordinary public and financial pressure and emotional pressure." The judge ruled last month that although the agreement seems clear, a hearing should be held to determine whether it was signed under duress...
...convince a judge that they speak for the boy. "They're trying to convince a federal judge that the boy would be in danger if he's returned to live in a communist society, and that the boy's father - who wants him back in Cuba - is speaking under duress," says TIME's Miami bureau chief Tim Padgett. "But many legal experts doubt whether a federal judge will buy that argument." Elsewhere, congressional supporters of the Cuban-American leadership are hoping that granting Elian immediate citizenship may help prevent his return, while Havana is considering sending the boy's grandmothers...