Word: harasser
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...disintegrate. Charges were made of unfair distribution of arms which short changed anarchist militia units. The Trotskyites and other groups opposed the conservative economic policies of the regime, and small military clashes were reported. As Stalin's purges got underway in the USSR, the Spanish government began to harass, threaten and even assassinate members of the left revolutionary groups...
...feuding and geopolitical intrigue. Inside the country, the fighting is at a standstill, analysts believe, as the leading non-communist group, the Khmer People's National Liberation Front (now at about 15,000 guerrillas) gains in strength, while the reviled Khmer Rouge, with its 30,000 fighters, continues to harass the Vietnamese occupiers...
...Hart claims that the administration did everything in its power to harass the Dartmouth Review, a weekly newspaper which Hart and a few friends dreamed up in 1900 as an "all-out assault on the ethos." The Dartmouth Travel Agency and the Dartmouth Cab Company never found themselves challenged for using the college's name, but the administration threatened to see the Dartmouth Review to prevent its use of the name. And, according to Hart, long after the paper had become nationally famous, outsiders who called Dartmouth information and asked for the Review were told that the publication...
...executives and their guests at an Economic Club of New York dinner in Manhattan's Hilton Hotel, evidently liked what they heard: they gave Canada's new Prime Minister two standing ovations. Mulroney, 45, vowed that his government would be "there to assist and not to harass the private sector in creating new wealth and the new jobs that Canada needs...
Similarly, it was easier for Mondale to harp on the controversy over the CIA manual on political assassination in Nicaragua than to specify exactly how, where and when covert action is a legitimate instrument of American policy. Mondale also tried to harass Reagan on the issue of responsibility for the bombings in Lebanon rather than tackle the broader, more difficult and more important question in the Middle East: not how to protect embassies from terrorists, but how to advance the Arab-Israeli peace process...