SUD and other critics claim France Telecom used extremely coercive methods to lay off 22,000 workers between 2006 and 2008.

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The current crisis started last month when the government of Andhra Pradesh came up with new, strict regulation on the basis of news that 30 people in the state had committed suicide in 45 days because of the coercive methods of MFIs.

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Presidents normally have a wide variety of means, some of them coercive, for obtaining votes on issues important to them, and all of these methods are familiar to the Senate opponents.

CENTERFORSECURITYPOLICY: Center for Security Policy | Neither Isolationists Nor Fools, By Richard PerleThe New York Times, 19 October 1999