Word: duress
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Some CRR members yesterday said they question the appropriateness of allowing students to judge their peers. The few students on the committee in its earliest days said they were subject to severe pressure and suffered psychological duress because they had a vote in their peers' discipline...
...until Columbia's trustees promise to sell the University's $32.5 million invested in corporations doing business in South Africa. In the process, they have placed both the trustees and themselves in a paradoxical predicament, even if Columbia is prepared to compromise, it cannot make any meaningful concessions under duress...
...prosecuted. The act that most old abortion statutes, by the author's own charge, criminalized the doctor, seems to answer that question. The mother, in-most cases, is so traumatized and exploited by the abortionist, and often by the fetus's father, that she is under enough mental duress to exculpate her from a large degree of the guilt, even under conventional insanity law. That is why the law must stop the abortion from happening in the first place. As for the abortionist, there is an easy answer to that question, YES. He is knowingly taking human life, often...
...engaged in a game of chicken-and we all look like turkeys," protested Republican Senator Warren Rudman of New Hampshire. Even the Senate chaplain seemed to be seeking forgiveness for the dilatory and disorderly conduct. "Father in heaven, we are here under duress," intoned the Rev. Richard Halverson. "But we imposed this on ourselves." The flagellation was fully justified. Congress had shrugged off difficult decisions for months, failing even to finance basic governmental functions. With the pre-election adjournment approaching, it had swung into a belated frenzy of partisan maneuvering that produced only gridlock. Four of its self-imposed deadlines...
Even intended receivers had a few scares. Harvard quarterback Brian White, under duress on the Cornell 32 toward the end of the third quarter, picked out sophomore Joel Seay on the 16, was popped by a rushing Cornell lineman and lobbed the ball almost straight into...