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The Oxford Essential Dictionary of the U.S. Military
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nuclear blackmail the threat of the use of nuclear weapons as a means of inducing an opponent to accede to the will of the nation issuing the threat.
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Blackmail isn't what it used to be, but it still sets the pulse racing
Newspaper article from: The Independent on Sunday; 4/20/2008; ; 700+ words
; ...glance it would appear that over the years blackmail has changed very little. While waiting...idly scan tabloid accounts of sexual blackmail, never thinking that such tawdry stories...began to appreciate the pivotal role blackmail played in the policing of modern sexuality...
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Group norms, gossip, and blackmail. (Symposium: Law, Economics, & Norms)
Magazine article from: University of Pennsylvania Law Review; 5/1/1996; ; 700+ words
; INTRODUCTION I. THE EFFECT OF BLACKMAIL ON GROUP NORMS A. Blackmail Ambiguously Affects the Expected Cost of Norm Violations B. Blackmail Impedes the Internalization of Norms C. Blackmail Inhibits the Communication Processes That Refine and...
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The gray case for legal blackmail
Newspaper article from: Jerusalem Post; 8/27/2006; ; 700+ words
; ...08-27-2006 Headline: The gray case for legal blackmail Byline: ASHER MEIR Edition; Daily Section: Economics...we are far from consensus regarding the crime of blackmail. Blackmail is generally defined as demanding payment in return...
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Sexual Blackmail: A Modern History.(Book Review)
Magazine article from: The Historian; 9/22/2004; ; 700+ words
; Sexual Blackmail: A Modern History. By Angus McLaren...In 1997, Autumn Jackson attempted to blackmail comedian Bill Cosby, asking him for...McLaren, is a modern day example of sexual blackmail. In this fascinating and beautifully...
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Sexual Blackmail: A Modern History.(Book Reviews)(Book Review)
Magazine article from: Journal of the History of Sexuality; 7/1/2003; ; 700+ words
; Sexual Blackmail: A Modern History. By ANGUS MCLAREN...332. $35.00 (cloth). In 1937 the blackmail trials of a New York City abortion ring...This is only one of the many fascinating blackmail stories Angus McLaren tells in Sexual...
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The Crime of Blackmail: A Libertarian Critique.
Magazine article from: Criminal Justice Ethics; 6/22/1999; ; 700+ words
; ...paradoxical about laws that criminalize blackmail. How is it that, as Glanville Williams...legal black"?(1) For the crime of blackmail involves the criminalization of two otherwise...current laws--constitute the crime of blackmail. Why should the conjunction of such...
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Emotional Blackmail: When the People in Your Life Use Fear, Obligation, and Guilt to Manipulate You
Magazine article from: Journal of Cognitive Psychotherapy; 1/1/1997; ; 700+ words
; Emotional Blackmail: When the People in Your Life Use Fear...as "being manipulated. " Emotional Blackmail is the aptly chosen, non-jargon description...Forward describes the nature of emotional blackmail, as well as its potential remedies...
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Blackmail against women on the rise in Saudi.
Newspaper article from: Al Arabiya (Saudi Arabia); 2/7/2009; 700+ words
; Summary: Blackmail against women is on the rise in Saudi...take matters into their own hands. Blackmail against women is on the rise in Saudi...matters into their own hands. Electronic blackmail, using pictures of women stored on...
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Electronic blackmail against women on rise in Saudi.
Newspaper article from: Al Arabiya (Saudi Arabia); 2/7/2009; 700+ words
; Summary: Blackmail against women is on the rise in Saudi...take matters into their own hands. Blackmail against women is on the rise in Saudi...matters into their own hands. Electronic blackmail, using pictures of women stored on...
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The Clinton Team and Blackmail.
Magazine article from: Insight on the News; 6/19/2000; ; 700+ words
; ...Clinton administration's probable use of blackmail and susceptibility to it as the Congress...kompromat. In the West, it's known as blackmail. After the 1994 elections, when the...they had such an operation, then the blackmail itself took place." It all came in...
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Federal Blackmail Statute (1994)
Book article from: Major Acts of Congress
Federal Blackmail Statute (1994) Stuart P. Green The federal blackmail statute (P.L. 103-322, 108 Stat. 2147...Racketeering Act, which criminalizes extortion, the blackmail statute is one of a series of statutes that make...
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Blackmail and Extortion
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of Crime and Justice
BLACKMAIL AND EXTORTION Extortion refers to obtaining...the misuse of public office. The terms blackmail and extortion are often used interchangeably...connote somewhat different behavior. Blackmail generally refers to hush money, and...
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Blackmail
Encyclopedia entry from: West's Encyclopedia of American Law
BLACKMAIL The crime involving a threat for purposes...person's money or property. The term blackmail originally denoted a payment made by...protection from thieves and marauders. In blackmail the threat might consist of physical...
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blackmail
Book article from: The Oxford Pocket Dictionary of Current English
...they were acquitted of charges of blackmail. ∎ money demanded in this way: we do not pay blackmail. ∎ the use of...information about that person: trying to blackmail him for $400,000. ∎...
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nuclear blackmail
Book article from: The Oxford Essential Dictionary of the U.S. Military
nuclear blackmail the threat of the use of nuclear weapons as a means of inducing an opponent to accede to the will of the nation issuing the threat.
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