Word: extortions
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...vanished in reaction to an oil slick formed by the family company's offshore drilling operation. Then her father receives a ransom call, which would suggest this is a kidnapping. But fifteen years ago, Laurel was involved in a similar kidnapping which, it turns out, she masterminded herself to extort money from her parents...
...lonely woman goes to bed with a man not because she wants sex but because she "would like to develop some sort of relationship with him." Writes Greer: "The man who has it in his power to hire and fire women from an interesting or lucrative position may extort sexual favors. A man who is famous or charismatic might humiliate women in ways that they would otherwise angrily resist. 'An End to Rape' does not so much refer to rapes on the streets as to the daily brutalization of contact between doctor and patient, employer and employee, dater...
Snatching the power of selection from the viewers, the Nixon plan places it squarely in the lap of an unspecified Federal official who will use ambiguous criteria to extort platitudes and placebos from the national media. Local stations would have to pass muster or fold; even the station managers who agree with Whitehead's philosophy would pressure the networks to share the responsibility for modifying programming in 'line with the President's standards. Through this indirect, but potent mechanism, the press freedom of natural networks would be hedged in by Federal intimidation and fenced in by Federal penalty...
...Elizabeth, N.J., where four candidates are running for mayor. One hopeful, Republican Matthew Nilsen, was indicted by a county grand jury on nine counts of threatening to kill or atrociously assault two men who apparently owed him $65,000. A second, Democrat Michael DeMartino, was charged with trying to extort $3,000 from a tavern owner by misusing his authority as a member of the city's alcoholic beverage control board. Last week it was revealed that the administration of a third candidate, Incumbent Mayor Thomas G. Dunn, a Democrat, is under investigation by the jury for possible corruption...
...Muller's view is totally consistent with his life. The son of impoverished immigrant Jews, he grew up in the '20s on Chicago's West Side. Every trip out of his neighborhood was a patrol through enemy territory. As a child, Muller saw thugs extort money from his mother after threatening to break up her fish store...