Word: aggressors
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...first two periods saw classic up-and-down play, with almost no action in the neutral zone. Cornell was the main aggressor in the opening stanza, but the acrobatics of McCabe in the cage turned a 1-0 Cornell lead into a 2-1 advantage for Brown on goals by Mike Flanagan at 12:49 and Roberts...
Kevin Cash provides a rambling account of Loeb's life, showing him as a Long Island socialite, a 1930s left-winger--he was a co-chairman of the Communist-dominated Committee to Boycott Aggressor Nations--an unsubtle adulterer, and a World War II draft evader. Placing particular emphasis on various peculiarities in Loeb's personal life--he was disowned and sued by his mother, he later disowned his own daughter, and he seems to have had Jewish ties despite his apparent anti-Semitism--Cash presents a portrait of a paranoid and unscrupulous gun-toting publisher. Loeb's well-known alliance...
...spring the tender trap, an acquisition-minded company usually advertises its willingness to buy stock in another firm at a price well above current market value though commonly below the stock's book value, or proportionate share of the company's net worth. The aggressor usually gives no warning; the management of a company under attack often learns about the tender offer only by reading the newspaper ads the same day stockholders...
...affect behavior. Such a group suddenly becomes an individual's only relationship with the rest of the world. Patty Hearst began as a victim [of kidnaping]. Any subsequent behavior has to be related to that fact. Prisoners under stress have a strong tendency to identify with the aggressor. The victim is dependent upon him for protection, food, for life itself. Identifying with the abductors may seem to be his or her only mechanism for survival. A helpless captive ends up fusing with the ideas of a group and doing things he or she as an individual would never have...
...what is to be their new relationship with the men of the world: both the men who are threatened by women's new sense of themselves, and the men who rejoice with them in their new identity, who despise as much as women do the role of exploiter and aggressor that has been visited upon them by the world in which they have been raised...