Word: victimize
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...often, our indifference to an injustice that threatens others is nurtured by our inability or unwillingness to see it through the eyes of the victim. Imagine, if you will, that you are an immigrant from Mexico who looks northward toward the United States in search of a job to feed your family. First, you have to get across the border; and, despite what a few conservative lawmakers would have us believe, that is always difficult and often dangerous...
...victim. But I failed to protect...
...victim...
...added that she thinks the physicians acted responsibly and ethically and should not have been jailed for treating the gunshot victim...
Until recently Japan's two dozen known AIDS victims were either male homosexuals or hemophiliacs. Then came word that the first female patient had died on Jan. 20 of AIDS-related pneumonia in Kobe, a western coastal city on the island of Honshu. The victim, a prostitute, was unquestionably heterosexual. Fear rattled the country like an earthquake. Stock in condom manufacturers soared by as much as 500 points on the Tokyo exchange. A TV news special seeking to pinpoint the source of the problem, suggested darkly that foreign sailors frequenting Kobe's red-light district were to blame, and asked...