Word: extortionately
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The French love their trains, but were boarding them warily after bomb threats to the country's rail system. The government confirmed that its security forces have for the past three months played a cat-and-mouse game with a group calling itself AZF that has threatened to bomb the...
Yet little in the makeup of the G.M.I.P. suggests that it shares the jihadist fervor of JI or al-Qaeda. Founded in 1995, the group seems driven as much by profiteering as fighting for Islam. Like the Abu Sayyaf in the Philippines, the G.M.I.P. is deep into extortion and kidnapping...
Leave it to the Indians to take the congested saga of ?I Married a Dead Man? - distressed young woman, fatal train wreck, her deception of a loving adoptive family, extortion by the old beau - and pack it with three times the plot, plus songs. Since the movie is both fabulous...
The average Indian voter may have learned to live with corruption. But many Indian businessmen, faced with extortion by bureaucrats and competitors using bribery to achieve unfair advantage, have not. Former CBI director turned antigraft campaigner Joginder Singh says his research shows that the typical Indian entrepreneur faces 65 different...
“Why should we tolerate discrimination against gays because of financial extortion?” he said.