Word: extortion
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...defense argued that Womack did not intend to follow through with his threats to extort money or commit physical violence, thus rendering him not guilty of extortion and malicious destruction...
...defense lawyer Homans argued that Womack's letters were so far removed from the reality of Womack's life that "a reasonable person would have a difficult time believing that he had intended to [follow through with his threat to] extort money, hurt people or make people act against their will...
...anger conveyed by the music. (Not surprisingly, Seven director David Fincher has many music videos under his belt. The movie's opening music is, in fact, a Nine Inch Nails tune.) And it's impossible to watch television without seeing talk shows and real-crime dramas which amplify and extort human misery for ratings...
...interpreted the relatively untroubled election as proof that the Islamist rebels were too weak to mount a major attack. The army has hit the G.I.A. and other armed groups hard since last spring, and the guerrillas have reportedly lost control of three outlying regions. In Algiers G.I.A. members still extort protection money in the "triangle of death," as the slums to the east of the city are known, but thousands of Algerians have fled areas of conflict. The young assassins who stalk victims with knives and pistols in the capital's center are fewer in number. "Some were arrested," explains...
...missionaries of Kikwit provide the only semblance of social services in a town where the government exists mainly to extort money. The Italian Poverelle (Little Sisters of the Poor) were the only ones to work in the hospital, and so they were the ones to start dying before they knew how to save themselves. Sister Dinarosa, 48, was the chief administrative nurse. She ran the generator, scrounged the medicines and grabbed supplies from any source she could find to keep the hospital functioning. "Anything that is working here," said Belgian doctor Barbara Kerst?ins, "was run by the nuns...