Word: extortionate
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A growing number of Basque businessmen are taking the courageous step of refusing to pay ETA-imposed revolutionary "taxes"-extortion payments that have long been a source of millions of dollars in terrorist revenue. Typically, an industrialist would be "invited" by ETA to visit the adjoining Basque regions of France...
Gerald was convicted in 1979 for attempting to extort money from a contractor who faced late charges for failing to complete the Baton Rouge Civic Center on time. According to testimony, Gerald offered to distribute money among members of the Baton Rouge city council. Despite conviction, he won a third...
Such religiously motivated vandalism is not so worrisome to Israelis as a newer challenge to the law: organized crime. The infection has spread in the wake of the industrialization and urbanization of the 1960s. It appeals particularly to those who could not fit into a modern, Western-style society. At...
As long as males have employed females, sexual harassment-whether a sniggering grab or outright sex-for-salary extortion-has been a fact of countless women's working lives. Yet as the proportion of women in the work force increased sharply in the past decade, so did the reports...
Cabrini-Green consists of 23 high-rise buildings and 55 row houses, all packed onto a 70-acre wedge of Chicago just south of the trendy Old Town neighborhood. Even when the project opened 39 years ago, the neighborhood was a high-crime pocket. Today the median income is $4...