Word: strongarm
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...press?and placing calls to the various trades about the new positions of RSO products. If, as RSO National Sales Manager Mitch Huffman says, "the charts are Coury's bible," then the boss is certainly not averse to applying for a revised standard version. He'll bluster, cajole, even strongarm an editor for a more favorable chart position. Says Wilson: "Coury's the only record company president that makes those calls. And I mean the only...
...factory jobs for union agitation, are tapped as organizers--on a commission basis--for their F.I.S.T. local, and gradually build the union's membership through the use of friendly spiels and free passes to Rocky. Stallone predicates his rise to success within F.I.S.T. (F.I.S.T.??) upon his refusal to use strongarm tactics within the union's ranks, and his adoption of forceful tactics against management instead, in defiance of the "fatcat" union leadership in Washington...
...most damaging to the Congress Party--was Sanjay's organization of the compulsory sterilization campaign. He turned India's Family Planning program into what was virtually a mass castration crusade. The government not only used a wide variety of economic incentives and disincentives to encourage sterilization, but also crude, strongarm tactics. These tactics alienated the teeming peasantry and urban poor who once supported Gandhi. The Youth Congress carried out sterilization and the companion slum clearance program with excessive brutality among the Muslims in Delhi, who saw the drive as an oppressive religious assault by the Hindus. Both the poor farmer...
...year as a result of collusive bidding practices for Army construction projects in South Korea. The arrangements have resulted in sizeable kickbacks for South Korean and American officials living in Korea willing to direct contract to a special construction association. Where it has met resistance, the association's strongarm subsidiary has threatened potential contractors, beaten American and Korean citizens, stolen U.S. Government bid documents, and engaged in numerous forms of bribery and intimidation...
...Side. "The object of the game," the instructions explain, "is to take control of a racket-bookmaking, extortion, loan sharking or hijacking-in as many of the neighborhoods on the board as possible." Players draw bad-break cards ("St. Valentine's Day card addressed to you, lose one strongarm and $250") or good-break cards, such as "Friendly persuasion. You get two strongarms and $150." The player with the highest score of rapine and venality becomes the Godfather. Unlike Monopoly, with its blind acquisitive luck still tied to stern if inexplicable morality ("Go directly to jail"), the players...