Word: victimizations
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Atari has been a victim of rough competition. The robust growth of the video-game industry has drawn so many new entrants that profits are increasingly hard to come by. More than 20 companies are now producing cartridges that play on Atari machines. While about 350 new game titles were released in all of 1982, dealers were inundated with 317 new ones in January of this year alone. Moreover, price cutting is rampant...
When critics complain that such precedent-busting verdicts make little sense, plaintiffs' attorneys like Charles Kavalaris of San Jose, Calif., reply: "The innocent victim of an accident should have somewhere to go if he can prove liability. If you look at it through the eyes of a quadriplegic, it's a fairly simple question to answer." Defendants' lawyers, on the other hand, fume. Attorney Stephen Newton of Mountain View, Calif., recently settled a claim by a victim who was paralyzed for life in an auto accident. Newton, representing a trucking company whose driver was essentially a bystander...
...Administration was railroading through its drastic measures, and a barrage of criticism was the only chance for a derailment. It made sense at the midterm elections, when in some districts the mere affiliation with Republicanism meant political death; eight-term Rep. Margaret Heckler of Southern Massachusetts was one such victim. Now, though, with the Reagan consensus clearly struggling, the only way to kill it off is with an appealing alternative agenda...
...have been laid on the table, we must guard against the tendency to be indifferent simply because so much time has passed. It's to easy not to care. It's too easy for McCloy to argue that we should forgive and forget--when he himself wasn't the victim. The internment was such a gross violation of basic human rights a raping of human dignity, that this sorry event should never be forgotten. The honoring of this man is a slap in the face of all Japanese-Americans, an insult to their very identities, telling that even after they...
Inevitably, maulings and even deaths occurred immediately after the closures, as the bears, which are usually eager to avoid humans, increasingly encountered them. Yet more often than not, it is the animal that has been the victim. Says Lance Olsen, president of the Montana-based Great Bear Foundation: "The grizzly can get shot just for showing up."Many of the animals are falling to poachers, who seem to have no trouble illicitly selling grizzly skins for as much as $10,000 or grizzly paws for $3,000 a pair. Even when they are caught, the poachers usually...