Word: victimizations
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...ahead of the GOP team of George Kariotis and Nicholas M. Nikitas by 69-20 percent. As a result, most attention on the race since September's primary has focused on how well the former duo get on together, as the nominally neutral Dukakis was reported to favor primary victim and State Senator Gerard D'Amico of Worcester for lieutenant governor...
Lazarus was quite right in pointing to the media's "Model Minority" theme as a source of misconception about Asian Americans. Yet he too fell victim to those newsworthy, yet oversimplified assessments of American Asians. Lazarus too readily accepts the fallacious idea that Asian Americans are caught between two conflicting cultures. There should be no conflict with being an American and being of Asian ancestry, for having grandparents who were born in Canton, Toyko or Seoul is just as American as having forefathers from Milan, Budapest or Edinburgh...
There is no better illustration of this point than the "National Crime Victim Survey" done by the Department of Justice, which indicates that 83 percent of the victims of Black robberies are Black themselves. Why, then, don't Blacks see another Black and automatically think crime...
Schloer did not appear to be a victim of foul play, said Larry Gillis, a spokesman for the Metropolitan Police. "I understand that [Schloer] had a history of cardiac problems," Gillis said...
...might one day be administered to those lacking the gene and could act to halt the disease. Eventually, advances in gene therapy might even lead to a cure, perhaps through the use of bioengineered viruses that would ferry copies of the healthy gene to the cells of a retinoblastoma victim...