Word: victimizations
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...down at will. A few words from the unfailingly suave sheik could make government officials shudder and cause stock markets from New York City to New Delhi to fall. With gallows humor, wags depicted OPEC at the height of its power as a highwayman who seizes his victim by the throat and cries, "Yamani or your life...
Although the AIDS virus has been found in saliva and tears, almost all AIDS transmission results from contact with the semen or blood of an AIDS victim. In semen, the virus rides as a passenger, probably in the disease-fighting white blood cells in the fluid. During intercourse, the white blood cells containing the AIDS virus alight on the mucous membranes inside the rectum or the vagina. Unlike the skin, which is an efficient barrier to the virus, the mucous membrane is a much thinner tissue and is more susceptible to infection. If microscopic tears occur in the membranes during...
...general doctrine that one cannot take life to protect property is rooted in English common law. The law -- a leading precedent came from Florida's Supreme Court in 1981 -- is particularly wary of deadly traps, which act without discrimination. Rasheed's victim "could very easily have been a fireman, a policeman or someone who just wandered into the store," says James Mullin, chairman of the local American Civil Liberties Union chapter...
...lame duck. He'll be a dead duck." That was the pre-election assessment offered on ABC's Nightline by the President's long-time friend and ally, Sen. Paul Laxalt (R-Nev.) Even Laxalt's hand-picked intended successor for his Senate seat, however, fell victim to the Democratic surge that ended six years of Republican reign in the United States Senate...
...manifested themselves in the workplace and on the ballot. After pinning an antihomosexual slogan to the wall of their garage, 29 New England Telephone Co. technicians staged a one-day walkout in Needham, Mass., to protest the return to work of a colleague who has the disease. The AIDS victim had stayed away from his job for a year, awaiting settlement of his $1.5 million lawsuit against the utility. He had charged the company with revealing his condition to his co-workers, who had then begun to threaten him. In California, debate continued over Proposition 64, on the ballot...