Word: extortionate
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It was exactly that sort of brinksmanship that produced the 1994 agreement. When North Korea announced it would no longer abide by the nonproliferation treaty, the Clinton Administration effectively purchased peace by promising financial aid if North Korea would quit developing nukes. South Korea and Japan, the regional neighbors most...
Somehow it is fitting that the people of Northern Ireland can't even agree on the name of the treaty they signed four years ago to end the Troubles. Catholics call it the Good Friday agreement after the holy day on which it was reached. To many Protestants that seems...
Actors can be so finicky about their wardrobe. Take Steven Seagal, who had a problem with the idea of wearing cement shoes. Reports of Seagal's troubles with associates of the Gambino Mafia clan surfaced several weeks ago when his pal and former producer, Julius Nasso, was indicted on extortion...
To be sure, such a lavish tribute seems wholly inappropriate for a ruthless killer who made his living through hijacking, racketeering, extortion and drugs. Yet the virtual lionization of underworld figures is nothing new. During the 1920s, America’s mass media helped transform certain groups of brutal outlaws?...
It all seems a little like extortion. Oh, they'll keep running the New Orleans to Los Angeles trains and the Coast Starlight from L.A. to Seattle and losing buckets of money, but the Boston to Washington route? The railroad's chief source of income? That they want to close...