Word: victimize
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...however, the new leader may mostly be a victim of her single great achievement: returning political freedom to the Philippines. It was Aquino, after all, who released Sison from jail, along with some 500 other political prisoners. She also permitted Marcos loyalists to protest her rule for three straight weeks in the streets of Manila. And she has actively encouraged the open questioning that Marcos so forcefully muzzled. "Less than 100 days is not enough time for a government to produce an impact," says Businessman Leonardo Alejandrino, "especially a government that almost by its own admission was not ready...
Tarullo said that other tenure-track assistant professors who have challenged basic presumptions of the law will soon be up for tenure. "I hope I turn out to be a sacrificial victim rather than the first of purge victims," he said...
...report in The Harvard Crimson (page 6) on Friday, May 2, 1986, regarding my reponse to an address by Mr. John Jacob, the President of The Urban League. I did not say that Mr. Jacob was "trapped in nostalgia." Rather, I stated that he should be wary of falling victim to "the treachery of nostalgia." Further, I did not describe the welfare state as "mediocre." Rather, I observed (1) that the welfare state created by the New Deal and the Great Society is a great improvement over the sort of society envisioned by reactionary critics but (2) that the welfare...
Advocates believe that Downer is merely a victim of Harvard's insensitivity to the problems of the disabled. A large empty shaft exists in Emerson, remnants of renovations from approximately 25 years ago. R. Thomas Quinn, assistant dean of the College for facilities, says that the University ran out of money and could not finish the project. He added that he did not realize that a handicapped student needed access to the upper floors of the building...
...have prospective jurors questioned about possible racial bias if the charges concern an interracial crime. In the 1979 Virginia murder trial of Willie Lloyd Turner, the judge refused to ask potential jurors whether their verdict would be influenced by the fact that the defendant was black and the victim white. The court's new rule is necessary, Justice White said, because "the risk of racial prejudice infecting a capital sentencing proceeding is especially serious in light of the complete finality of the death sentence...