Rather, it was the result of Dell's quarterly requests for more exclusivity protection money from Intel.
Their punishments for failure to pay protection money are extravagant and meant to be cautionary.
Tata Tea, however, denies paying protection money, even after a senior employee was kidnapped in 1993.
ULFA. That is why estate owners would rather pay protection money than risk guerrillas' bullets.
If your contractor had a krisha (literally, roof) in other words, was paying protection money things would be different.
Corruption may still be deep, but entrepreneurs no longer have to pay extortionate protection money to the mafia.
Yet they do not have to pay protection money, as many firms in eastern Europe and Asia do.
Giving in advance to Ms. Sebelius can quickly begin to look like protection money to avoid corporate tax retribution.
Though the rebels deny it, drug-trafficking or, at best, protection money from traffickers, is a sizeable source of their income.
Too often, the first commanders were replaced by militants more keen on extorting protection money from shopkeepers than on liberation.
To take just one of many possible scenarios, a legitimate company might be forced to pay protection money to the local mafiosi.
One way out might be to pay protection money to the guerrillas.
His men had terrorized the community, demanding protection money from the local shop owners and raping young boys on their way to school.
Last month parliament slipped a clause into the 2008 budget providing tax breaks to businessmen and women who refuse demands for protection money.
Inevitably, the next step involves campaign contributions to key lawmakers, protection money that ensures that the law favors those with the right political connections.
One of three people accused of killing a Polish man outside his Carlisle home has told a jury that he paid the victim protection money.
They revealed little funding from oil companies and other self interested commercial enterprises, who actually contribute heavily to global warming alarmists as protection money instead.
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"Protection money having to be paid by shopkeepers or manufacturing firms to the local crime organisation has a discouraging effect on entrepreneurship and job creation, " he explains.
The protection money apparently goes to railway workers owed months of pay who find that blocking the railway is among the few effective ways of getting their cash.
There he remains, despite several Mexican attempts to extradite him on charges that he had taken protection money from drug traffickers and helped cover up his brother's murder.
One lucky nab: Assad Barakat, a Hezbollah treasurer known for extracting protection money from Lebanese shopkeepers in South America hoping to keep their relatives back home safe from harm.
Many farmers and ranchers - like most business owners around Beersheba and Upper Nazareth - are coerced into paying protection money to the same Arab gangs who target their fields.
These rebels are gaining strength, in no small part because of the vast amounts of money they are receiving from trafficking in drugs or extorting protection money from other drug traffickers.
The old code's very incomprehensibility and Draconian levels (taxes exceed the national income) played into the hands of local mafias that would demand protection money to keep tax collectors at bay.
More recently, a strange bandit sect called Mungiki has been terrorising people in the northern hinterland of Nairobi, forcing protection money out of drivers of matatus (minibuses) and killing those who refuse.
Islamist militias such as AQIM, which generated funds for guns and recruitment by kidnapping and ransoming Western hostages, profited from protection money and other proceeds of the drugs trade, according to security analysts.
American and Iraqi officials have followed suit, but sometimes find that if they pay one tribe, a rival blows up the line and then claims to be more deserving of the protection money.
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He said that he and Mr Kawalec, driven by Ms Mucha, had gone to the victim's house to pay protection money he had previously demanded and Mr Kulinski came out shouting abuse and making as if to attack him.
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