Word: duress
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...Lovelace, who died at age 53 in 2002 after a car crash, later claimed she performed under duress, telling a 1986 Congressional committee that "virtually every time someone watches that movie, they're watching me being raped." (These claims were widely disputed.) But Damiano did his best to make his leading lady look good. He gave her an alliterative, movie-star name and devised costumes, lighting tricks and cagey camera angles to hide her abdominal scar, a memento from an earlier car wreck. Linda was no goddess, but neither was she your standard porno skank; she was slim and freckled...
...verb “coerce” with the term abortion, the FFL cites statistics (gathered by pro-life groups) which show that lack of financial and emotional support motivate women to terminate their pregnancies. But, even if these statistics are accurate, the fact that many abortions occur under duress does not disqualify them as legitimate choices made by free-thinking, rational individuals...
Below America's waters lies a junkyard. Every year, thousands of boats, barges and ships sink or are abandoned in the U.S., having been rendered unusable due to accidents, weather damage, age or an owner's financial duress, and the vast majority of them are never recovered...
...administration’s highest-profile detainees, Abu Zubayda and Ibn al-Shaykh al-Libi, traditional FBI “rapport-building” interrogations produced favorable results, while CIA coercion provided scant intelligence. In al-Libi’s case, the intelligence he did provide under duress proved tragically false. During the months leading up to the U.S. invasion of Iraq, Egyptian officials, backed by the CIA, pressed al-Libi to link Al Qaeda to Iraq’s Saddam Hussein. When al-Libi insisted that he “knew nothing,” he found himself locked...
...There are 300,000 Vietnamese missing. Let's get on with commerce. We're talking 69 million consumers here. And besides, said my companion Dave, who should know, just put it out of your mind that there are any old American soldiers presently living in these parts under duress. Dave spent two years as a prisoner of war. He says there wouldn't be a POW alive, living the way he had to live. For trying to escape once, they shattered his Achilles tendon. Dave is 46 years old and healthy now, at least in body. The surfing competition...