Word: victimized
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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James H. Boren has been sitting beside his Washington telephone waiting for Jimmy Carter to call. Unless there is some contact within the next few days, Boren and his followers will assume that the coming Administration is headed toward trouble, another victim of the federal bureaucracy...
...team will send its youngest, most innocent-looking member, often an eleven-or twelve-year-old, into a bank to spot a likely victim: a woman, say, who is cashing a money order or a Social Security check. When she leaves the building, only one member of the gang will follow her closely so as not to arouse her suspicions. The others trail far behind. When she gets into the elevator in her apartment house, two or three will catch up and board it with her and get off at the floor below hers. Then, as she unlocks her door...
TIME Correspondent Mary Cronin last week paid a visit to the victim of one of the hundreds of robberies that are still unsolved. Charles Bertsch, 87, is a huge, hearty man who lives with a dozen cats in a cluttered Bronx basement apartment that he has occupied since 1911. The once prosperous neighborhood is now an age-blackened slum of begrimed apartment buildings lining rubbish-choked streets...
...torrid stock market of the 1960s produced dozens of "hot issues"-young companies whose stocks soared on dazzling dreams of instant wealth. Many collapsed just as quickly, falling victim to mismanagement, unrealistically high expectations or, in some cases, outright fraud. Some survive only as names in the memory of angry investors. Stirling Homex (modular housing) no longer exists; King Resources is still in bankruptcy proceedings; and Bernie Cornfeld's Investors Overseas Services is in the terminal stages of liquidation...
...himself. Its sole "vector" is a person actually afflicted with the disease; he is contagious only during the four weeks between the appearance of the disfiguring rash and the scaling off of the ugly scabs that form on its pustules. If all those who come in contact with the victim during that period have already been vaccinated or are immune from previous infection, the human transmission chain is broken and the disease is not passed...