Word: victimizations
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Before I realized what happened, it had already crashed," said one train victim interviewed on television. His nose was bandaged but he said he was otherwise unhurt...
...sleeping with and the status of your married life. Then they'll use this evidence to try to intimidate and embarrass you in court." Following the 1985 crash in Dallas, Delta was criticized for prying into the lives of passengers during litigation. After investigators found that one victim was homosexual, insurance lawyers raised the issue of whether his life expectancy would have been cut short because of AIDS...
...keep people from settling without representation, since it is virtually certain in crash cases that damages will be paid. But a study last year by the Rand Corp. found that litigation often does not yield the jackpots that the public imagines. Rand found that airlines and other defendants paid victims' families less than half their average "economic loss," the value of what the deceased would have earned in a normal lifetime. Jury verdicts averaged $599,000 per victim. Still, the odds are good enough and the stakes high enough to ensure that lawyers will continue to litigate these cases avidly...
Reality: Terrorists are the people who place bombs in the suitcases of their unsuspecting girlfriends. A death is a sacrifice to God. A dead brother is a martyr, not a victim. Bartering with terrorists constitutes either a bill too large to pay or a technique too unreliable upon which to depend...
...Israel was short-sided in believing that their hostages were the only ones who could die. Israel was bound to be the victim whether the Obeid trade-off succeeded or failed. Instead of saying, "look, those Arabs can not be trusted," many Americans are asking, "how could Israel not have known...