Word: victimizations
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...British government at least $1.2 billion a year, while the losses to insurance companies were likely to exceed $1 billion. Occidental Chairman Armand Hammer promised a contribution of $1.7 million to a Piper Alpha disaster fund and an indemnity of some $170,000 to the family of each victim...
...State Department official who briefedreporters on condition of anonymity said it wasnot yet clear whether a flat amount will be paidfor each victim or whether the age, number ofdependents and earnings of the victims will betaken into account in assessing compensation...
...major civil rights ruling that brushed aside Administration objections, the Justices decided, 8 to 0, that a lower court had been wrong in preventing a black former bank employee from using statistics to prove that she was the victim of racial discrimination in the bank's promotion practices. As a result, plaintiffs in employment discrimination suits may now point to the number of women or minorities at a workplace or in higher-ranking jobs as evidence that "subjective" employer judgments, like a supervisor's evaluations, had a discriminatory result...
Perhaps the best-known political casualty of the Gorbachev era, former Moscow Party Boss Boris Yeltsin, issued a typically brash plea for political rehabilitation. Fired last November for his attacks on fellow Politburo members who showed a lack of enthusiasm for Gorbachev's reforms, Yeltsin portrayed himself as the victim of circumstance. "I believe that my only + mistake was that I chose the wrong time, ((just)) before the celebration of the 70th anniversary of the Revolution," said Yeltsin, now a high-ranking construction minister. "I took very much to heart what happened." Showing that he is as combative as ever...
...band of leftist terrorists called November 17 claimed responsibility for the attack. Nordeen was the 14th victim and the third American killed by the organization since 1975. Declared the killers: "We decided to execute one of the higher-ranking officers of American imperialism in our country...