Word: blackmail
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...OPEC-like cartel might control as much as 80% of the world's natural-gas reserves and 40% of natural-gas pipeline transportation. He proudly emphasizes Russia's leading role in this coordination due to its resources--and feigns surprise at the U.S. calling it a weapon of blackmail...
...politician. Web sites like Gawker and Wonkette already gleefully post photos of celebrity or politician offspring on a regular basis, so if you really want to make some quick easy bucks in your lifetime, go ahead and start saving scandalous photos of all the future politicians on this campus. Blackmail may be sleazy, but it sure can make you rich...
...they can make a woman feel very intimidated about making any other choice in her life." Wood insists that at her center counselors are trained not to push. "We don't hand out baby booties to everyone with a positive pregnancy test," she says. "We don't do emotional blackmail." And her center at least continues to provide support through the first year of a baby's life. But Wood's priority has been to move away from general maternal help and focus on "abortion vulnerable" women, which is to say, any woman facing an unplanned pregnancy who might entertain...
...rewarding role is not Eugene, as in the earlier plays of the trilogy, but his mother. Linda Lavin (of TV's Alice) gives a stunning performance. After a first act in which she seems to be a short-tempered drudge, this long-suffering mother gradually transmutes shrewishness and emotional blackmail into fidelity and a kind of noble forbearance. That transformation is the basic movement of the play. There is not a moment of sentiment or self-indulgence in Lavin's evocation, nor in the woman she is playing...
...meant to symbolize patriotic unity and shared values above politics that the rape allegations have prompted calls for Katsav to quit. The president's lawyers dismiss the charges as false, alleging that they were trumped up by his political enemies. Earlier, Katsav had accused "A" of trying to blackmail him. Stay tuned for what promises to be a long-running political soap opera...