Word: coercion
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...boys, remanded to home detention by a judge, are free to return to school. Englewood residents are now claiming police coercion and racial bias in the case. The police deny any misconduct. "These babies just did not do this," says Shirley Blanton, a close friend of the families. Now, to celebrate, she says, "the whole neighborhood is going to have a barbecue"--except, perhaps, for the kin of Ryan Harris...
...military recruitment at its Office of Career Services (OCS). The ban, which exists because of the military's policy regarding homosexuals, is an important measure of protest that HLS should uphold. The loss of funding with which the law school is threatened is an act of aggressive financial coercion which inappropriately ties scholarship money to the school's right to uphold its on-campus non-discrimination policy...
While enjoying free Toscanini's ice cream and yesterday's bright sunshine, Eat-In participants said they were also taking a stand against social coercion of women...
...make Burma attractive, the military is using its traditional mainstays of coercion and intimidation. According to independent investigations by the New York Times and the State Department, forced labor is routinely used in constructing the infrastructure of tourism: roads, hotels and airports. Even tourist sites such as the recently restored Gold Palace in Mandalay are not immune...
Liberal Democrats, who supported Anita Hill against Clarence Thomas in 1991, are waking up to the police state that their rigid rules have created. Now, as allegations fly about presidential sex, we can finally distinguish between genuine sexual coercion and free expression of sexual thought...