Word: harassing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Moments later, Landry headed a Deb Field corner kick toward the Aggie goal line, where A&M netminder Graylyn Boyd pounced on the ball. But Boyd failed to control the ball, and Crimson fullback Jean Piersiak, who stands in the crease to harass the goalie on corner kicks, slid into the sprawling Boyd to knock in the tying goal with 26:30 remaining in the contest...
Arguing against the injunction request, city lawyer Stephen Deutsch said any delay in enforcing the amendments would "seriously harm the public interest" by allowing landlords to harass tenants into buying their apartments. "The city council has determined that this would not serve the public interest," Deutsch added
...been involved in the drug war since 1974, when Congress restricted the agency's role in law enforcement after learning that President Nixon had used it to harass his political enemies. The Reagan Administration is now trying to loosen the Taxpayer Privacy Act, which some officials bitterly call "the Organized Crime Relief Act," to give law enforcement agents greater access to taxpayer records. The IRS is also assigning more investigators to ferret out tax evasion among major drug traffickers...
Moving about many areas of the countryside with relative freedom, the guerrillas interdict roads and harass army supply and communications links. Bands of insurgents occupy villages and occasionally even a sizable town for a few days at a time. When superior government forces arrive, the guerrillas fade away. When the army units move on, the guerrillas are apt to return shortly thereafter. In Chalatenango department, such hit-and-run tactics have forced army troops to stay close to their barracks. In Morazan department, the insurgents control most of the countryside. Last week TIME Correspondent James Willwerth traveled to Morazan...
...Ugandan soldiers who man dozens of checkpoints in the capital are often indistinguishable from outlaws. Troops routinely rob and harass passersby. Two months ago, a Ugandan company commander, leading his men on a looting expedition, was fatally wounded when a bullet he fired into a door lock ricocheted into his chest. The next day, claiming that the officer had been killed by insurgents, soldiers swooped down on the neighborhood and robbed every home...