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USAT reports that the makers of the best-selling drug in the U.S, Astra, has agreed to pay a record nearly $10 million to female employees who claimed that they were pressured for sex by company officials and urged to wear bikinis at a beach function.
Oddly, it was in the same McLaughlin program referred to above that this issue was raised and promptly ridiculed as ludicrous: one can assume only that McLaughlin felt more pressured by nationalistic and ethnic interests than by lawyers.
Their economic power on the rise, the Flemish have pressured for a dominant position in politics.
He agreed to take on the Jones case without warning Rosty and, pressed for time, pressured his client to accept a plea bargain that would have meant time in prison.
When pressured to clarify his positions, Bush morphs the question into attack politics and attack journalism.