Word: shakedowns
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...first can plausibly be said to be an act of self-defense. The second is freelance law enforcement. And wrong for all the obvious reasons. Proportionality, to start with: the death penalty, which is what Goetz tried and failed to administer, is reserved for greater crimes than a $5 shakedown. Lack of necessity, for another. Pulling the gun ended the threat. The boys ran. Pulling the trigger was superfluous. Two had to be shot in the back...
...only technology, but also politics, have paved the way for the successful GOP shakedown The invasion of Grenada and downing of the Korean Airlines jet by the Soviet Union created a surge in Reagan's popularity that found its financial expression in campaign contributions, RNC financial director Philip Smith says...
...Arabs, who control nearly 60% of the world's proven deposits, are slowing down the flow. Through this strategy of squeeze, they hope to pressure the industrial nations into forcing Israel to make peace on terms favorable to the Arabs. Moreover, they are steadily intensifying their oil shakedown. Originally they planned to reduce production by at least 5% each month. Later they embargoed all oil shipments to the U.S. and The Netherlands, in punishment for their support of Israel. Last week, showing new unity and clout, ten Arab countries announced that production for November will be slashed a minimum...
...wake of last week's denouement, daily newspapers across the country editorialized that Bendix's shakedown cruise pointed up the need for stricter federal regulation. Undoubtedly true, but the recommendation is unrealistic in the Age of Reagan. More practically, the unseemly Bendix affair should provoke a little reassessment on the part of American industry, a realization that "mass merger" is equivalent to corporate suicide Last month's theatrics show that today's mergers often have nothing to do with efficiency and productivity. They stem, instead, from a sense of institutional machismo that craves acquisition. America's business giants have...
...think in the process of a new Government getting together there has at times been a breakdown of communications, [insufficient] checking of each other. . . I just think that was part of the shakedown that goes on with an Administration...