Word: harrass
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...stop covering abortions as part of private health insurance. So even for women who can afford health insurance, abortions could be made much more difficult to obtain. The measure would also empower the state to license and to regulate abortion clinics, creating an opportunity for anti-abortion activists to harrass and obstruct their operations...
...Company refused to bargain with its workers over issues such as forced lie detector tests, compulsory physical examinations and search and seizure of employees' private property by Coors's private police force. Coors has been cited by the National Labor Relations Board for a number of instances of illegal harrassment of employees and continues to harrass and dismiss employees who support unionization. The company has broken 19 unions in the last 20 years. In addition Coors has been implicated in hazardous waste dumping and in unfair employment practices...
...complaint maintains that Brown "has engaged in and continues to engage in conduct designed to harrass the plaintiff, subject him to ridicule and effectively make his job unappealing and unduly stressful...
...addition, some of the guards used threats of violence to harrass or intimidate their captives. In one instance, a student played Russian roulette with some of the hostages in an attempt to force them to open an embassy safe: "The guy was standing there flipping the chamber of his gun. He said I had five minutes to live. I just started ranting...
...role he knew that Robinson was likely to win. With this in mind, he went with his friend and co-"Black", Steams, before the College Government. They claimed that Robinson was the principal promoter of the division in the class, that he had led the class to insult and harrass them, and that he had "expended in dissipation at Boston the money which had been allowed him by Government...