Word: harassment
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...John Madden, inviting you to sign up now for a low-interest KashKard!" "Got a minute? I'd like to show you how Lightfinger Securities can double your income--in hours!" It means, in short, the power of both spoken word and moving image harnessed to harass you with a hundredfold more annoying, unsolicited dinnertime calls. Still want the Picturephone...
Beyond that, antiabortion crusaders plan to harass pharmacological abortionists just as they do the old-fashioned kind. After being kicked off the Web by six different Internet providers, for example, activist NEAL HORSLEY is back online with his "RU-486 Registry" website, which, among other things, will be listing the names of doctors who dispense the drug. Horsley's websites have been criticized in the past for inciting violence: Buffalo, N.Y., abortion provider Dr. Barnett Slepian was on a Horsley list when he was murdered in 1998. Not guilty, says Horsley. All he does is "write factually verifiable information about...
...tougher stand against the Jewish state. While neither state is entirely democratic, they are ultimately forced to take account of public sentiment - indeed, last week's Egyptian election saw candidates backed by an outlawed Islamist party gain 17 seats from the government, despite the government's best efforts to harass them and their supporters...
...commission, in a 249-page report it calls "groundbreaking," concludes, "'Going postal' is a myth: postal workers are no more likely to physically assault, sexually harass or verbally abuse their coworkers than employees in the national work force..." and says retail workers are more in jeopardy...
...Disgraced Republican president Richard Nixon spent several years illegally using the FBI and the INS to harass and try to deport the ex-Beatle in the early '70s because of his opposition to the Vietnam War and Nixon's 1972 reelection...