Word: victimization
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Part of the Public. One thing that has happened is that the laboring man has, as never before, become part of the general public. Like the salaried worker, he owns his own home, a car and a television set; like the salaried man, he is a victim of the inflation set off by wage-price spirals. No longer battling for survival, he now seeks security. In a period of general prosperity, he feels less real need for a union. The result can be easily gauged: at a time of record employment, union membership is faltering. In 1956 unions claimed...
...railroad's lawyers argued that the connections if any, between the water and what happened to Gallick "were beyond the realm of reasonable probability or foreseeability." In its ruling, the Supreme Court affirmed the principle that the "tortfeasor" (the party that commits the wrongful act) "must compensate his victim for even the improbable or unexpectedly severe consequences...
Life as a Little Doll. From then on, Tormé patrolled the fringes of popularity, and from time to time slipped into downright obscurity. On the few occasions when he had to sing from center stage, he invariably fell victim to some quirk of personality that cost him friends, fans and jobs. His life, as even he tells it, began to sound like a punk's diary. "I didn't know the word for it then," he says, "but I can see now that I was defensive. I had a chip on my shoulder." To unload it, Torme...
...Another victim of the "groupiness" at Berkeley is the large colony of foreign students. Of the 2300 foreign students at Cal about 350 live in the huge International House. Despite an effort to mix them with Americans, most of the foreign students keep to their own nationality. The large block of Orientals, including 550 Chinese and Japanese citizens, is especially cohesive...
...Whether it can reinfect them or attack adults is not yet known. Parainfluenza 3 behaves much like type 1. But all these viruses are so new to science that medical researchers still do not know such important details as the differences in their incubation periods after they infect a victim. New York City's concurrent outbreaks of flu and paraflu may provide some useful clues. Pediatricians have noted that parents tend to come down with a moderately severe illness about six days after a child gets sick...