Word: victimize
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...finals of the five-man team competition to a strong squad from Mexico, while in the men's singles open division, Co-Captain Kenton Jernigan, Harvard's number one player and a heavy favorite to win a record-tying fourth open championship in a row, was the victim of a stunning upset by Yale's Hugh LaBossier...
...rating. But all that is now playing is the decadent decor, some menacing portents and a pair of actors (Mickey Rourke and Kim Basinger) looking for their motivations in various chic Manhattan locales. Adrian Lyne, late of Flashdance, directed this silliness, and three writers watched their script fall victim to the death of a thousand cuts. Maybe they should have photographed that...
...element of surprise that is most unsettling to executives confronted by sudden catastrophe. Says Fink: "The savviest chief executive in the world often falls victim to a kind of paralysis when a crisis strikes." Any kind of conditioning may thus be comforting in a crunch. Says Jean Lipman-Blumen, a professor at California's Claremont Graduate School's Executive Management Program: "The worst part of a crisis is being unprepared. By removing the unexpected quality you are removing that which is most unnerving...
Last week, one anonymous face in that crowd laced a bottle of Tylenol capsules with cyanide, killing a young woman. The authorities say that the assailant probably did not know his victim. She was just another face in the crowd...
This latest act of random murder makes one feel strangely vulnerable. We all are users of painkillers and cold remedies. Any one of us could be a victim. Along with the experts, we wonder how to make packages more "tamper-resistant" and how to protect ourselves from anonymous assailants...