Word: harassed
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Anyone with technically feasible ideas on how best to "embarrass, harass, or 'sabotage' a large computer system which has done you wrong" could win cash prizes in a contest now being organized by two third-year GSAS students...
...suggestion of then-Attorney General Arthur Sills, police began compiling detailed dossiers on people taking part in demonstrations, even when the demonstrators violated no laws. The surveillance was promptly challenged by the state chapter of the American Civil Liberties Union. Arguing that police intelligence-gathering activities would "intimidate and harass" demonstrators, the A.C.L.U. asked a superior court judge to order the investigations stopped, the dossiers destroyed...
Protection was the one thing that the government was unable to guarantee. The Lebanese army would have no difficulty controlling the Arab guerrillas who have flocked to southern Lebanon from Syria and Jordan in order to harass Israelis across the border. But in putting down the fedayeen, the army would enrage the 300,000 Palestinian refugees in Lebanon and probably bring down the government. Though Karami considered inviting troops from Tunisia and Morocco to help seal the border, the Cabinet decided instead to enforce a seven-month-old agreement under which the guerrillas are forbidden to carry arms in Lebanese...
...what kind, the U.S. should provide in response to Lon Nol's personal appeal for help. If Phnom-Penh were to fall, so would the non-Communist government of Cambodia. The North Vietnamese troops would then have even safer sanctuaries and supply routes from which to harass South Viet Nam. But any widening of U.S. involvement would raise political protests at home. The President's televised report to the nation only underscored the dilemma. He bluntly warned Hanoi's leaders that they would be taking "grave risks" if they "jeopardize the security of our remaining forces...
...General Motors believes that the purpose of this proposed committee is to harass the corporation and its management and to promote the particular economic and social views of the Project...