Word: victimizations
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Volkswagen executives had been feeling justifiably proud that their Golf model has become the best-selling car in Europe. Last week the corporate backslapping suddenly stopped. The West German firm announced that it had been the victim of a swindle that would cost it nearly $260 million. Though VW provided no details, financial analysts believe the money was fraudulently lost by traders who were involved in the company's continuous exchanges of dollars and other currencies for deutsche marks...
...campuses she surveyed had been forced into sex during their college years or before, and most of these incidents were date rapes. The number of forcible rapes reported each year -- 87,340 in 1985 -- is believed to be about half the total actually committed. Experts say the victim knows the assailant in at least a third of all rapes. Says Koss: "You're a lot more likely to be raped by a date than by a stranger jumping out of the bushes...
...Battleship's gun victim of 'shmen prank...
...from its news staff of 1,470 before Capital Cities Communications took control in early 1986 and eliminated 75 more positions last year, News President Roone Arledge has ordered a re-examination of the division and its $275 million budget. Arledge's request for suggestions has already claimed a victim: Av Westin, vice president for program development, who distributed to Capital Cities/ABC executives an unpublished magazine article he wrote. Titled "Days of Penury, Days of Affluence," Westin's 18- page memo argued that ABC's producers were more efficient 18 years ago, when he produced the network's nightly news...
Among the other businesses that have been threatened by rumors are Proctor & Gamble (the notion that the company's moon-and-stars symbol was related to Satanism), a Belgian beer that had to ride out a phony report that it caused impotence, and France's margarine industry, the victim of gossip that the lower-price spread was full of dangerous contaminants. Kapferer thinks French housewives got behind the margarine rumor as an excuse to keep buying butter. One margarine company fought back with an ad slogan describing the story as the "rumor that costs you dearly...