Word: extortionate
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Donin said that the legal definitions of blackmail and extortion are not correct characterizations of what "Rhys and Douglas" did, though the lawyer confirmed that the University had been solicited about buying the web site names.
In a sense the flyer was silly, even meaningless. Blasphemy is to speak disrespectfully of religion. The dictionary says so. To give it a new meaning is a little like Humpty Dumpty in Through the Looking-Glass pretending to Alice that "glory" means "a nice knock-down argument." Pretending that...
However, one hopeful sign in the system is that extortion can work both ways. Corporations that are often pictured as the corruptors of innocent pols are now complaining that they have been pressured to give with threats of adverse regulations, and many of them are tired of the shakedowns that...
SENTENCED. JOHN GOTTI JR., 35, son of mobster John Gotti; to 6 1/2 years in prison; in White Plains, N.Y. He had pleaded guilty in April to charges of bribery and extortion.
Memo to Moscow: Want a bit of cash for those depleted Kremlin coffers? It's easy ? just dust off the missile silos. The U.S. Monday announced a new breakthrough with North Korea, after the two sides agreed at talks in Berlin that Pyongyang would suspend missile tests in exchange for...