Word: extractable
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...McGee has shifted from theatrics to threats. While the earlier Panthers stressed self-defense, he vows that unless his demands for $100 million in jobs programs and city council representation to give blacks more clout in city government are met by 1995, his militia will "cripple" the city and "extract a measure of justice." He even jokes about taking hostages if the city does not respond to his satisfaction...
...year) might cost Americans for Flag Burning another 6 cents, and mailing the package at bulk rate will be about a dime. Total: 26 cents. But if one person out of 100 responds to the package, that's considered an adequate return. So it's cost them $26 to extract your $25. Unless you send more, they're out a buck. Of course, the money spent finding you is lost whether you respond or not. But that's just the beginning. After waiting a decent interval -- though considerably short of the year you thought you signed up for -- they will...
Frankly, this play is awful. An optimistic viewer may be able to extract some cheap laughs from the absurdities, of course. There is a misunderstanding involving a headless body, for example, which had this particular audience in stitches. Especially since the body is brought on stage, dripping gore from the severed neck...
Class--and complete dominance--best describe Masland's match against Jumbo Matt Trevithick. He played his ever-consistent, ever-strong game to extract...
...rainbow coalition of white, black, Latin American, African, Caribbean and Asian criminals who are deluging the ghettos (and the rest of America) with drugs is motivated by greed, not genocide. They seek to extract maximum profits from their sordid business -- and if some of their customers fatally overdose themselves or are gunned down in turf battles between dealers, so be it. Whatever the drug pushers' goal may be, blacks could thwart them by the simple expedient of refusing to use drugs. The question is whether they will be self-interested enough to reject deluded genocide theories and face...