Word: extortionately
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The City Council, however, stipulated concessions that would have cost Harvard $10 million for the construction of the tunnel, according to the estimates of University officials. The neighborhood’s rejection of Harvard’s initial generosity was short-sighted and their subsequent demands—including a...
The wiretaps and other material produced evidence of a conspiracy in which a few families agreed to carve up the garment-industry trucking business among themselves. The trick was bringing a case. There was evidence of extortion, Spitzer recalls, but it was ambiguous, and cases like this had failed in...
South Korean officials, however, see the latest nuclear muscle flexing by Pyongyang as the continuation of a long-established pattern of extortion through brinkmanship - the North Koreans unveil some new weapon threat and hang tough, and then agree to mothball it in exchange for economic aid. Even now, Pyongyang is...
Filipinos need no reminding that they are squarely in the sights of Jemaah Islamiah (JI), and the presence of U.S. troops may have made the archipelago an even more tempting target. A year ago, an explosion rocked the Metro Railway Transit, killing 22 and injuring hundreds of others. The attack...
Fueling the unease is a spate of troublesome reports from the country's Muslim-dominated south. The region has been blighted this year by a series of bomb and arson attacks on schools and hotels and a rash of hits on local cops. Both government and intelligence agencies believe the...