Word: harassments
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...business today, but with a sharper sense of the odds against him. "You have a President of the United States who says abortion should be illegal," he says. "You have religious leaders saying that doctors who perform this service should go to hell. You have antiabortion groups that harass medical staff. What professionals would continue to do a service that subjected them to this kind of abuse...
...source adds, "If [the government] overthrow[s] PBS by attempts to press charges against major figures of the [local] government and if [it] continue[s] to harass native leaders and the native government personally with threats of the ISA, so that people are unable to speak freely of their opinions, it hearkens a return to a more authoritative regime under the thumbs of the central government...
...ages 5 to 13 in one neighborhood found that 62% showed signs of traumatic shock. Teenagers were disoriented by the violence. Since the war, knife fights have erupted in schools, drug use is mounting, burglaries and vandalism have increased. Near a fashionable seaside shopping mall, teenage boys on motorcycles harass girls, and others race in flashy sports cars. Some of these youths were among the 400,000 Kuwaitis who left the country during the occupation and lived a life of ease in European and Arab capitals. Their re-entry into a restrictive society has disrupted the social fabric...
...Sexual harassment remains a loaded topic that can rupture friendships and plunge victims into self-doubt. Many people don't understand what it is. Certainly men and women viewing the same incident often disagree on whether anything untoward -- not to mention illegal -- has occurred. Is it ordinary flirtation? Is it old-fashioned earthy humor between friends of opposite sex? No, says Webb. Most men do not sexually harass their co-workers. Those who do are engaging in a power trip that plays on sex; work-related strings are | attached. Says she: "It's really not difficult to understand. You just...
...MAKE MATTERS WORSE, members of the OBKhSS and the pacos supplement their incomes through bribes they extort from the entrepeneurs, they harass, not to mention skim free goods off the top of those that they confiscate...