Word: extortionate
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There is one reality no one can ignore, however. After a brief holiday as a modern city, Kathmandu is suddenly in danger of rejoining the rest of the country in the Dark Ages. Hotels, tourist stalls and restaurants are shutting down and aid donors are shelving vital infrastructure projects. Life...
Secretary of State Colin Powell has suggested the U.S. could provide some form of written assurance to satisfy North Korea's security concerns, although not a full- fledged non-aggression pact. But President Bush has repeatedly warned, even on the eve of the current talks, that Kim Jong Il cannot...
Before it revealed its clandestine program in violation of the 1994 agreement, North Korea's nuclear brinkmanship has been viewed by many in Washington and Seoul as a form of extortion designed to shore up an economy in free-fall. But some U.S. officials now suspect that Kim Jong-il...
(2 of 2) "Lies! A bunch of outright lies!" Uzan says of the Motorola complaint, which among other things charges the family with using libel and extortion to intimidate its enemies. Judge Rakoff, he claims, is anti-Turkish. "He is biased against Turkey, against the Turkish people." As for the...
Lightly tanned and galvanized by his daily workout, Cem Uzan, 42, is relaxing in a trim blue business suit at his swanky party headquarters in downtown Ankara. Behind him is a wall-length map of Turkey, lit up with red flags of towns and villages he has visited in his...