Word: extortionate
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Schelling believes that "a good many economic and business principles that operate in the 'upper-world' must, with suitable modification for change in environment, operate in the underworld as well." Indeed, there is a distinct "typology of underworld business." One major group is black markets, which sell "commodities...
What prompted that condemnation from Judge Cooper-together with a five-year prison sentence and a $10,000 fine-was Defendant John Fellebaum's part in a nationwide extortion ring that has turned blackmail of homosexuals into a lucrative, cruelly efficient business. Though the full dimensions of the ring...
Bribe Squeezers. Mobutu realizes that the first necessity for the northeast is the re-establishment of fundamental order. The Simbas killed or carried off almost all the trained civil servants, leaving vast areas of the north east governed by second-rate profiteers who squeeze bribes and extortion mon ey out...
The last time around was 1963. Now the backlog has built up once again. What's more, June 2 is the 20th anniversary of the end of the monarchy-a proper time for celebration-and June 12 is the date for municipal elections. Members of Parliament, almost to a...
Schmidt's letter finally got into the hands of the first sergeant. After that Schmidt really did have something to bitch about. He was assigned to extra duty peeling potatoes and scrubbing the grease trap in the mess hall. When he warned his company commander that unless the persecution...