Word: victimized
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Although Mobutu should have realized that he was making Zaïre more vulnerable than ever to world market fluctuations by concentrating so heavily on copper, he was partly a victim of plain bad luck. He could hardly have foreseen the soaring oil prices that helped depress the economies of his copper-buying customers and multiplied Zaïre's import bills. But there is more to the Zaïre story than that. Mobutu, who styles himself le Guide (the guide), also sank borrowed money-to be repaid out of copper revenues he did not get-into showy...
Hood sets the action of the novel in motion. He pursues a man who has bullied a poor street sweeper and beats him to death in a deserted alley. Hood thinks the murder an act complete in itself, but he falls in love with Lorna, his victim's window, and finds an arsenal of weapons in her house...
...victim of a little-noticed discrepancy in the Harvard-Radcliffe merger agreement by which past and present Harvard students are not entitled to the privileges of their Radcliffe counterparts--a legal quirk that the head of the Radcliffe Board of Trustees said yesterday should be changed...
Finally, the proposal to ban non-returnable bottles and cans in an effort to improve the environment and conserve energy through recycling suffered a narrow and bitter defeat. It was in part a victim of a saturation-level advertising campaign that often distorted the aims and implications of the bill, falsely claiming for example, that it would not encourage recycling and would cost the state jobs...
They should have paid closer attention to their victim. They should have noticed, for example, that when Carrie is around, ashtrays have a way of hop ping up off desks, that mirrors suddenly break for no reason at all, that windows have a way of slamming shut without anyone's touching them. For Carrie possesses the power of telekinesis, the ability to animate objects and make them obey her will. In short, beneath that mousey exterior, that shy desire simply to be accepted, a terrible power lurks, waiting to be called forth...