Word: extortionately
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But while South Korea has, since the election of Kim Dae-Jung, pursued a policy of reconciliation through famine relief and other economic assistance designed to reduce tensions along what may be the world's most heavily defended border - and the most dangerous posting in the U.S. military - North Korea...
Her testimony came the same day the Washington Post published excerpts from an internal U.N. report detailing torture, killing, extortion and threats against U.N. peacekeepers committed by the Kosovo Protection Force (KPF).
Signs of failure in Kosovo are troubling the Clinton administration, with Republican pressure slowly mounting against the continued presence of U.S. troops on an increasingly dangerous peacekeeping mission. In the face of Milosevic's crimes against humanity in Kosovo, Washington had, during and immediately after the war, elevated the KLA...
Even as the Web was twanging with news of the Maxus scam, Attorney General Janet Reno proposed a crime-fighting network designed to combat just such cybercriminality. The move may protect the next e-tailer victimized by Net extortion, but it has come too late to help this one.
Donin said that the legal definitions of blackmail and extortion are not correct characterizations of what "Rhys and Douglas" did, though the lawyer confirmed that the University had been solicited about buying the web site names.