Word: badness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Another rapist told his therapy group in Florida that he started out as a Peeping Tom before graduating to rape. "I started feeling bad about myself and guilty about what I was doing," he said. "The only way to make me feel better was to make them feel worse...
...during the medical exam and assist her with the police report. Reporting the rape is important both to put repeat offenders in jail and for therapy. "It's getting back," says Gail Abarbanel, director of the Santa Monica (Calif.) Rape Treatment Center. "To discourage women from reporting is a bad message that implies the victim had a role in the rape...
...French were not appeased. If the tone of Perkins' message was not bad enough, what he did with the letter only added insult to injury. After writing his lamentable lines in Paris, Perkins traveled across the Channel to mail them from London. The reason: he was afraid the French mail service would not be able to handle 300,000 letters at one time...
...viewed the payments as a new effort by Iran to demonstrate its trustworthiness and eagerness to conduct trade. Said he: "The Iranians are doing all they can to restore their credibility in the world banking community." Most observers, however, see no real changes taking place. "Politically, our relations are bad, and, if anything, they seem to be getting worse," said one State Department official. Indeed, progress remains glacial at the Iran-U.S. Claims Tribunal in The Hague, where a panel has settled only 65 claims, mostly by U.S. citizens and businesses against Iran, for $78 million. Still unsettled...
...payback will reduce the agency's need to borrow in the credit markets and thus may slightly ease pressure on U.S. interest rates. In addition, the settlement improves the agency's image by paring down its roster of deadbeats. Revolutions like Iran's have resulted in bad loans, including $26 million to pre-Mao China and $36 million to pre-Castro Cuba, that are unlikely ever to be paid...