Word: victimizations
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...handcuffs or government officials who use public life mainly to make contacts for private life." Bush, in the first of a series of speeches laying out his principal themes, emphasized similar points, even at the risk of seeming disloyal to fellow Reaganauts. "Our own Administration has been the victim of individuals who haven't had the judgment or integrity to put the public's business above their own selfish interest," he told students at Albion College. "Greed is not a legitimate force in this society...
...have sore, red eyes, a runny nose, headaches, fevers, and then red spots, be careful, because you might be the latest victim of a measles epidemic that has been sweeping college campuses and high schools across the country...
...find himself the victim of a cruel paradox. Employers in the area have put out the word that those returning from the U.S. need not apply. Their attitude is summed up by Ignacio Manriquez, 26, Jorge's cousin, who employs about 80 people on six pig farms in and around Huandacareo. "They get used to the big money they make in the U.S.," he says. "They see they won't make in a day what they were getting in an hour up there. And the first time there's a problem, they say, 'You can take this job and shove...
...trial opened last week, Goetz, 39, an electronics technician, faced 13 criminal charges, including four for attempted murder. Defense Attorney Barry Slotnick insisted, however, that Goetz "was the real victim in this case." Slotnick announced that he planned to defend his client by "prosecuting" the four "vicious predators" who surrounded Goetz on the subway car. Despite an admonition from Judge Stephen Crane, Slotnick referred to Goetz's victims as "drug addicts" and attempted to bring up their criminal records. (Two of the four are in jail on other charges, one for the rape of an adolescent girl, and a third...
...setback came in the case of Warren McCleskey, a black man convicted of killing a white Atlanta police officer during a 1978 robbery. Lawyers for McCleskey argued that race had played a part in his being sentenced to die in Georgia's electric chair -- the race of his victim as well as his own. The principal supporting evidence was a statistical study of more than 2,000 Georgia murder cases from 1973 to 1979. Conducted by University of Iowa Law Professor David Baldus and two colleagues, the study found that those who killed whites were 4.3 times as likely...