Word: extortionate
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Made into a movie, it would make a tidy triple bill with the currently showing Juggernaut and The Taking of Pelham One Two Three. But for the residents of the Pacific Northwest, whose electricity and water supplies have been threatened since late September by a man calling himself J. Hawker...
Now the East St. Louis school system is involved in more than the usual amount of trouble. The president of the school board is under indictment on charges of conspiring to murder a fellow board member. In addition, the president, three of his cronies on the board, the school district...
Under rough cross-examination by Mitchell's attorney, William Hundley, Hunt refused to characterize his demands for money as either "extortion" or "blackmail." Asked Hundley sarcastically: "What was it, investment planning?" Showing a secret agent's preference for euphemisms, Hunt insisted that he was merely making a "reiteration...
Another objection to the law is the possibility that a prospective employer might force the job applicants to obtain a copy of the entire file and include it within applications for employment. The student loses the protection from the extortion of outside parties which Harvard offered although other schools did...
In 261 stories over seven months, the Indianapolis Star has published accounts of police abuses and corruption: flagrant examples of bribery, theft, extortion and protecting prostitutes. Though the exposé series caused a shake-up of police leadership, Marion County Prosecutor Noble Pearcy has obtained indictments of only five cops...