Word: victimized
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...morass. In his pulpit style, Chicago's the Rev. Jesse Jackson, head of the Operation PUSH self-help group, says: "It is bad to be in the slum, but it is worse when the slum is in you. The spiritual slum is the ultimate tragedy. The victimizer is responsible for us being down, but the victim is responsible for us getting up." Jackson has called for neighborhood volunteers to replace police in patrolling ghetto schools and street corners, has launched a drive for black parents to monitor strictly their children's homework and schooling, and has urged that voter registration...
...remembered as one in which benefits often trickled up to the so-called poverticians?the programmers, social workers and suppliers to the needy. Any massive program to stimulate the whole economy, in an attempt to bring down unemployment rapidly, would only give a rocket boost to inflation. The primary victim would be the underclass...
...worked his way up through several financial posts to vice chairman and chief financial officer. In that job, he was aware of some jiggery-pokery in Lockheed's foreign sales. But the board's special review committee found that he was "to a certain extent the victim of a plan by Haughton and Kotchian to keep him uninformed...
...full-service station, long a familiar and comforting fixture of the American roadside, is falling victim to a major new marketing trend. For years the large oil companies, which own or lease most stations, were not concerned about income from gasoline sales; their earnings came mainly from producing and selling crude oil. But those profits have been slashed by takeovers of production facilities by governments abroad and price controls...
Exceedingly few people develop herpes simplex encephalitis, a brain inflammation produced by the same virus that causes, among other things, the common cold sore. Those who do are unfortunate indeed. Fever, recurrent headaches, personality changes and seizures often afflict the victim, though the disease can be definitely confirmed only by brain biopsy. Once it starts, moreover, it steadily gets worse. People with herpes encephalitis almost invariably become comatose, then die; survivors nearly always suffer brain damage, frequently so severe as to require institutionalization...