Word: victimization
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Sachs victim, the system fails to produce an enzyme crucial to a chemical process within cells: the metabolizing of fats (technically, "lipids"). As a result, excess fats accumulate in the brain cells and block normal activity. Earlier researchers suspected that the missing enzyme was hexosaminidase. Yet substantial amounts of hexosaminidase are found in Tay-Sachs victims. Neuroscientists John O'Brien and Shintaro Okada investigated hexosaminidase more intensively and discovered that it actually consisted of two enzymes, Hex-A and Hex-B. Both are present in normal tissue but, they found, only Hex-B occurs in the tissue...
...York Bernadette made a point of posing with Mayor John Lindsay, who gave her the key to the city and declared himself a victim of "love at first sight." But she reacted differently to two big-city mayors with less liberal qualifications. Of Chicago's Richard Daley, Bernadette sniffed: "I don't even want a donation from him," and she did not meet Los Angeles' Sam Yorty. Everywhere, she warned against oversimplifying Northern Ireland's problems. "The press feels we're either trying to kick hell out of the British or kick hell...
...ruling United National Independence Party (U.N.I.P.), Kapwepwe automatically took over Zambia's vice-presidency. During a hastily called press conference last week, he abruptly resigned. In a speech designed to upstage Kaunda, who was scheduled to deliver a nationwide address that afternoon, Kapwepwe complained that he was the victim of "mudslinging in the press," that government ministers were rude and abusive, and that his fellow Bembas were being discriminated against. Kapwepwe obviously hoped that his well-publicized resignation would pave the way for an eventual return to power-perhaps to Kaunda's office-by popular acclaim...
Almost every losing plaintiff yearns for revenge. But what if he is poor, confined to a wheelchair and has no law degree? Despite those handicaps, a Chicago polio victim named Sherman Skolnick fought back so hard that last month two members of the Illinois Supreme Court resigned amid charges of conflict of interest brought by him. Moreover, the revelations about those judges -Chief Justice Roy Solfisburg and Associate Justice Ray Klingbiel-have inspired a committee of the state legislature to embark forthwith on a "top-to-bottom inquiry into the entire judiciary in Illinois...
...reporter would then return to the game and mutter "Cheap." Translation: No story, because the motive was routine and the victim was a nobody. There were other supposed nobodies. When checking on, say, "a floater d.o.a. at County" (a drowning victim pronounced dead on arrival at Cook County Hospital), the first question was, "Black or white?" If the dead man happened to be Negro, the reporter would "cheap it out." As for impersonating public officials, it was accepted practice. More than one reporter telephoned the scene of a crime and barked, "Hello, this is Coroner Toman," only to be told...