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Word: victimize (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...build up his strength for the second operation, as had originally been planned, they decided to perform the transplant as soon as a suitable donor organ became available. That happened at week's end, when doctors obtained and transplanted a heart from a 19-year-old Texas motorcycle accident victim...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Buying Time with an Artificial Pump | 9/16/1985 | See Source »

...case, as Frey's lyrics chime in: "It's the lure of easy money/ It's got a very strong appeal/ It's a losin' proposition . . ." In a subtle and moving final shot, the agent drifts out of the frame to reveal Tubbs and Crockett comforting Trudy, the forgotten victim of this dirty but necessary operation...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Video: Cool Cops, Hot Show | 9/16/1985 | See Source »

...leading cause of death among black males ages 15 to 24 in the U.S. is not heart disease, not cancer, not any natural cause. It is murder by other blacks. More than 1 out of every 3 blacks who die in that age group is the victim of a homicide. Across America, particularly among the underclass in the nation's urban ghettos, brother is killing brother in a kind of racial fratricide. More than 40% of all the nation's murder victims are black, and 94% of those who commit these murders are black. The 6,000 or so Americans...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: When Brother Kills Brother | 9/16/1985 | See Source »

...statistics add up to a horrify- ing equation. In America today, a white female has 1 chance in 606 of becoming a murder victim. A white male has 1 chance in 186. A black female has 1 chance in 124. A black male has 1 chance...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: When Brother Kills Brother | 9/16/1985 | See Source »

...initiative petition, signed by more than 5000 registered voters, defines pornography as "the graphic sexuallly explicit subordination of women through pictures or words." As an amendment to the city's newly created Human Rights Commission, the ordinance would permit a victim to seek civil damages against the maker, distributor, seller or exhibitor of anything deemed sexually dehumanizing...

Author: By Thomas J. Winslow, | Title: Pornography Issue Removed From November Ballot By City Council | 9/12/1985 | See Source »

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