Word: victimizations
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...drug-using dune-buggy jockeys brawled so fiercely that officials had to set up a field hospital to treat the casualties. In Tennessee's Great Smoky Mountains National Park, a ranger was assaulted one night when he inspected a parked car and chanced on a kidnaper and his victim. Everglades National Park in Florida has become a major thoroughfare for illegal drugs from Colombia and elsewhere. Arizona has robberies, assaults, rapes and sex parties in its Salt River area, and the Wasatch Front in Utah is the scene of drug feuds, arson and marauding motorcycle gangs. On a single...
...attempts by the Wisconsin-based G. Heileman Brewing Co., as well as legal attacks by a dissident Pabst shareholder, Irwin Jacobs. Meanwhile, the Stroh Brewery Co. of Detroit, which acquired New York City's F. & M. Schaefer Co. in 1981, is still struggling to digest its latest takeover victim, the venerable Jos. Schlitz Brewing Co. of Milwaukee, which Stroh acquired for $497 million in June...
...agency. The worker had been arrested by Salvadoran security police on charges of providing supplies to the guerrillas. Imprisoned for several days in a secret, soundproof room at police headquarters in downtown San Salvador, he was stretched on a rotating wheel, beaten severely and forced to swallow lime. The victim was also strung up by his hands and feet while his genitals were squeezed in a wire vise...
...Atlanta man came out of his depression when the outbreaks began to ease. "I looked at it this way: 95% of the time I didn't have herpes. I worked it out and came to terms with it." For others, progress depends on a change of attitude, from victim to manager. Says Marilyn Anderson of Cleveland Heights: "I have this problem, yes, but I feel I have it under control and I can handle it mainly by taking care of my body and my mind. People who have herpes shouldn't downgrade themselves. You have to be positive...
...philosopher William James expressed a similar reaction after a visit to Chautauqua in 1896: "I stayed for a week, held spellbound by the charm and ease of everything, by the middle-class paradise, without a victim, without a blot, without a tear. And yet what was my own astonishment, on emerging into the dark and wicked world again, to catch myself . . . saying 'Ouf, what a relief! Now for something primordial and savage . . . to set the balance straight...