Word: victimizations
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...intended takeover victim fights back, outside brokers who are unregistered with the major stock exchanges might enter the game, usually as stalking horses for the raider. The job of the so-called third-market brokers is to "sweep the Street" quickly and quietly for any available blocks of stock in the target company, usually after regular market hours or when normal trading in a stock has been suspended under exchange rules. Then they turn the shares over to the raider...
...should liken Ivan Boesky with the gangsters who fix the crap games. Both seem to have a knack for reducing the imposed sentence, if not escaping its very intent. Furthermore, with both types of crime the victim is unaware of being--a victim...
...videotape is earnestly intent on deflecting criticism of homosexuals for spreading AIDS. In the tape's one emotional scene, the brother of an AIDS victim says, "If I ever hear anyone talking about how gays are to blame for AIDS . . . I swear to God, I'm gonna punch 'em in the head!" New York City is still debating whether to accept the tape. Board of Education President Robert Wagner Jr. has criticized it for not clearly opposing adolescent sex and drug use, but he has not directly objected to its gingerliness about homosexuality and anal...
...were dropped. The keynote address was delivered by a former foreign correspondent, Ernest Coates, who had been charged with aggravated sexual assault of his son and daughter but was acquitted. Introduced as someone who "sees his children only in his dreams," the Australian-born Coates claimed he was the victim of state-paid psychologists, young lawyers on the make and a troubled wife...
Also, like some feminists, the men effortlessly repaired to the role of victim. Coates told the convention, "You have to persecute men because men are the ones who dominated women, and now we're fair game." The problem, said the dejected Rossler, is that "men always come off on the short end of sympathy...