Word: extortions
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Police said yesterday that, over the past four years, Womack stole from the book collection at Northeastern, tried to extort money from that university and, in one case, threatened to blow up a bank if ransom money was not left for him at Widener Library...
Such fears have a foundation: the world has seen terrorism continuously evolve to new heights of ingenuity and depravity. This week Carlos the Jackal is in jail in France, and North Korea is using the threat of nuclear weapons to try to extort billions from its neighbors. Their juxtaposition in the news, linking the worst of 1970s-style terrorism with the brazen threat of irresponsible nuclear ambitions, shouts a warning of a different sort of terror, still indefinable but extremely frightening. The combination of brutality and fanaticism with nuclear weapons could bring about disasters almost too chilling to contemplate...
...bonanza has not only turned once sleepy villages into bawdy boomtowns but also given guerrillas of the National Liberation Army attractive targets. The rebels have sabotaged oil installations more than 500 times since 1987, and have lately taken to kidnapping and assassinating local officials in an attempt to extort some of the oil wealth that has flooded into the region. "It's a plague," said Gustavo Wilches, governor of the area where Cusiana is located, in January. "The discovery of petroleum is destroying us." The very day he spoke, guerrillas shot down a helicopter over an oil field and others...
...just that. In 1986, Edgar Sr. proclaimed Efer his heir as head of the company. He was chosen over his older brother Samuel, who in 1975 was the center of a sensational kidnapping case; one of the two captors claimed Samuel had arranged the abduction himself to extort ransom money from his father. The family believed Samuel's angry denials...
...what about economic liberty? Individuals, and businesses too small to effectively extort these payments subsidize the border-hoppers with higher taxes. Gov. Jim Edgar of Illinois, who is stuck dealing with more than 300 million dollars in incentives doled out to a handful of companies by his predecessor, has come to realize this rub: "Once you get something, you might have given up so much it wasn't worth getting [the project], and everyone else that pays taxes is frustrated," Edgar told the National Journal last April...