1.   About two-thirds of the extortion attempts stop after the first threatening letter.

2.   But the confusion is yet another legacy of the compressed construction schedule that created the cost-overrun embarrassments and subsequent extortion attempt for more public subsidy.

3.   Didier Schuller, the politician, reportedly complained to the Interior Ministry that he was the subject of an extortion attempt.

4.   Eaton also is expected to testify regarding a reputed extortion attempt for which Symington is also charged in the indictment.

5.   FBI agents said some extortion attempts targeted an FBI agent posing as a local businessman.

6.   He also claimed he was the victim of an extortion attempt by the players.

7.   His younger brother, he says, was probably shaken after being told his big brother was under investigation for an extortion attempt against the church.

8.   If major industrial countries stood with the United States, their companies could collectively resist foreign extortion attempts.

9.   Instead, they said, she and two co-defendants, Medina and Boris Sabas, wanted the proposed contract with The Globe for leverage in an extortion attempt.

10.   She contacted Palmer with an extortion attempt once she found out that Whitley was dead.