Word: strongarm
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Colm M., 25, is a Belfast-born barman and bouncer. More a charmer than a strongarm, Colm arrived in New York as a teenager. His father came originally to escape "the troubles." Colm, his mother and three siblings followed on visitor's visas and stayed on. "There was nothing there for us," he explains. Even so, it took him years to adjust to American cultural attitudes. "In Ireland everybody was afraid of the teacher, but here the kid would tell the teacher to F off. In Ireland you could get killed for that. First the teacher would kill you; then...
...world order, leading us instead down a decidedly "old" path, one which Americans thought we had abandoned for good in 1975. The president is abdicating from a unique opportunity to fashion a system of collective, peaceful dispute-resolution. Instead, he has simply manipulated international goodwill to strongarm the Security Council into approving what would be essentially unilateral U.S. policework...
Legislators say that Flaherty is no Keverian protege. While Keverian came to power in the House in a coup against then-House Speaker Thomas W. McGee (D-Lynn), advocating rules of reform, some legislators have gone so far as to call Flaherty a potential strongarm leader...
Coupled with frequently insensitive U.S. political actions abroad, this corporate presence prompts many foreigners to see this country as a strongarm of self-interest, rather than a stronghold of liberty. And the powerlessness engendered among. Third World countries--and, in fact, even out Western allies--by this ponderous. American influence breeds the sort of desperation on which terrorism thrives...
...many, such ends are not ill-advised. Besides, if the Administration should press allies like El Salvador and Guatemala to improve human rights conditions, as some contend--why shouldn't it strongarm Israel? Such an analogy overlooks the fact that Israel is a democracy, unlike those Latin American countries where outside pressure is the only possible influence on a dictator. For all its weaknesses, the Jewish state must decide on its own what course to follow; if Israelis have had enough of Lebanon, the territories and Begin, they have the internal procedures to say so and act on their will...