Word: victimes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...afraid that Marcos is as much a victim of circumstances beyond his control as are the majority of the Filipino people. If he relaxes his martial rule, his enemies will be out to get him. If he maintains the so-called democratic authoritarianism, his enemies will still try to liquidate...
...Nolan Ryan's record 383rd K victim...
...takes him to lunch, to the movies, and to her apartment, where Wells succumbs to her charms after a feeble struggle--"I don't want to compromise you," he worries. Ironically, this self-described "twentieth-century woman" becomes the classic damsel in distress when Stevenson chooses her for his victim...
...dollar was again the primary victim of this classic inflationary flight into goods. West Germany raised the value of its muscular mark by 2% against other European currencies to discourage speculators from dumping dollars to buy marks. But all it took was some news about the U.S. trade deficit to send the buck plunging sharply anyway. Most members of TIME's Board of Economists expect the dollar to fall further. So long as inflation in the U.S. remains steeper than in other leading industrial countries, says Economist Otto Eckstein, "the dollar is indefensible...
Tavernier is utterly unable to reconcile his vision of Bouvier as society's victim and the audience's gut response to these atrocities. His attempt to weasel out of providing firm answers by "prettying up" these murders verges on the immoral. To kill young children is a heinous crime and no amount of earlier abuse can explain it away...