Ida Tarbell, the greatest of the muckraking journalists, accused Standard Oil of building its empire on "fraud, deceit, special privilege, gross illegality, bribery, coercion, corruption, intimidation, espionage or outright terror".
Once a U.S. Embassy begins to spot "irregularities" --signs of fraud, coercion, corruption, baby buying, and other serious problems--in adoptions from that particular country, it begins to post carefully worded cautions to prospective parents on the Embassy's website and on the State Department adoption website.
India's film censorship organisation is in crisis after the resignation of its chair, Leela Samson, amid complaints of "interference, coercion and corruption", and more than half its board members.
Nihalani has been in the hot seat since January, when previous CBFC incumbent Leela Samson and more than half of the organisation's board members resigned amid complaints of "interference, coercion and corruption".
But the debate also illustrates the mixture of elation and worry that has accompanied Tunisia's progress toward democracy: freed from the overt coercion and corruption of Mr. Ben Ali's government, many now fear that more subtle forces are trying to pull the strings from behind the scenes, in part though political money.
On Tuesday, Pahlaj Nihalani was appointed India's Censor Board chief after his predecessor, Leela Samson resigned, citing "interference, coercion, and corruption".
The novel is a sprawling epic of drug trafficking, murder, coercion, and corruption at the highest levels of Mexican law enforcement and government.
He delayed the overhaul of the tax system recommended in the recent report of a government-appointed committee, though he agreed with it that the present regime is "exemption and discretion based", making it "suspicion-ridden, harassment-generating, coercion-inclined" ("corruption-riddled", too, he might have added).
In a nation without a democratic tradition, power is exclusively associated with autocracy and coercion, immorality and corruption.
With acute business acumen, and the usual cocktail of corruption, coercion and killing, it extended its tentacles to North and South America, Asia and Europe, erecting lethal barriers to entry along the way.
Currency intervention, breaking Copenhagen, crackdowns, collusion, corruption, coercion, and censorship: China's ongoing bad behavior as global citizen is, when we connect the dots, the gigantic elephant in the world's boardroom.
