Word: victimizations
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...prosecutor will try to link fibers found in Williams' home and car with similar fibers found on the bodies of both victims. Even before the state presented any testimony about the fibers, Binder tried to undermine the linkage by getting police to admit that a number of people had handled Payne's body. His implication: even the police could have been the source of fibers found on the victim...
Manotoc seemed an unlikely victim for a kidnaping. He had no real wealth of his own. In 1971, he married Aurora Pijuan, then 21, a sugar planter's daughter who had a year earlier won a beauty contest title: Miss International. The couple had a son and daughter, but had become estranged by the time Manotoc met the President's daughter last February. Imee and Tommy started seeing each other at public events and later sneaking away to a condominium in Makati owned by a relative of Imee. Both families knew what was going on and the presidential...
Sanctions often ultimately strengthen rather than weaken their intended victim. The U.N. embargo of Rhodesia, which began in 1966, spurred that country to improve greatly its own domestic manufacturing capacity. Some scholars believe that the same thing could happen in the Soviet Union. Says Robert L. Paarlberg, a professor of political science at Wellesley: "Sanctions might stimulate the Soviets to develop more indigenous technological capabilities that might in the long run strengthen the Communist state...
...worst jolt of joblessness may be that first notice of it-the firing, the layoff, the company closure. That event, whatever its form, typically arouses feelings like grief, as though a loved one had died, according to experts like Industrial Psychologist Joseph Fabricatore of Los Angeles. The victim, says Fabricator, passes through stages of disbelief ("This can't be happening"), shock numbness, rage. The elemental severity of such a reaction tells a great deal about the invisible desolation that is possible-and commonplace-in the world of the jobless. The bruising can show up in feelings of worthlessness. Rage...
...worst. Probably I didn't deserve to live. It doesn't simply take away your self-confidence. It destroys you." Elliot Liebow, chief of the Federal Government's Center for Work and Mental Health, says that the very nub of the lost-job syndrome is the victim's feeling of being cut off from personal and social power The sense of powerlessness is compounded by all but universal self-blame, says Liebow, adding: "One very destructive thing is the enormous difficulty people have in seeing themselves as victims of the system. They always blame themselves...