Word: extortionate
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Amin began the verbal skirmishing with the Kenyans right after they allowed Israeli planes to refuel at Nairobi following the Entebbe raid. Uganda, declared Amin, "reserves the right to retaliate in whatever way possible." Since then hundreds of Kenyans have fled Uganda in fear, carrying tales of extortion, beatings and...
Stories about a Thorpe-Scott relationship had quietly circulated before, and in 1971, with Scotland Yard's help, they were privately investigated by Liberal Party elders. Scott was questioned about his accusations and collapsed under crossexamination. The Liberal leaders then accepted Thorpe's denial. When Scott trumpeted his...
It was a Democratic presidential primary ballot. It does no good to be a Republican in West Virginia, maybe because if you are a Democrat in West Virginia you are a right-center Democrat, and tantamount to being, say, a Republican in Massachusetts. The only Republican West Virginians elect are...
The chairman of a Chicago-based multinational company, for example, condemns Lockheed for going beyond accepted practice in its payoffs, but then adds that there is a "gray area" in which American companies must accept the moral standards of the countries where they operate, like it or not. His own...
Whatever excuses might be offered for bribery?Pentagon pressure, foreign extortion, "Everybody does it"?the practice has become intolerable. Tips to customs officials to perform duties that they ought to carry out anyway might be unremarkable ethically, but payments to Cabinet ministers to put a U.S. company's interests...