Word: victimizer
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...misled public opinion or the government by inaccurate information or wrong conclusions, do we know of any cases of public recognition and rectification of such mistakes by the same journalist or the same newspaper? No, it does not happen, because it would damage sales. A nation may be the victim of such a mistake, but the journalist always gets away with it. One may safely assume that he will start writing the opposity with renewed self-assurance...
...sits huddled in a wheelchair in his small, cluttered office at England's Cambridge University. At his side is a mechanical page turner that allows him to read without calling for assistance. Stephen Hawking has been confined to a wheelchair for eight years, the victim of a type of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, a rare, wasting disease of the nervous system and muscles. He cannot raise his head without great effort. He speaks only in a slurred monotone comprehensible to just a few intimates. Yet, at age 36, in spite of his heart-rending handicaps, Hawking is widely regarded...
...level unity. But gradually he's getting all his people on board." A few weeks ago, the entire former party secretariat of northeastern Heilungkiang province was rehabilitated en masse. More recently, there have been unconfirmed reports that former Peking Mayor P'eng Chen, a major victim of the Cultural Revolution, will be the next former villain to be restored to power. If so, Teng will have advanced one important step further in discrediting the radical legacy...
...discontent in this straitened atmosphere, the government has hiked wages to a respectable level-on average, $271 monthly-and opened the borders to foreign consumer goods. But hardly anyone shows any interest in public affairs. Says one purge victim: "All the old questions remain unanswered. There are no illusions. The cynicism is astonishing...
...outdoorsmen who camp in the vicinity of Yellowstone National Park's bears are, when attacked, trying to lay the rap on the Park Service. A camper received leg wounds from one of the bears against which the park constantly warns with signs, brochures and general publicity; the victim argued that the Park Service was negligent not to warn more sternly, more thoroughly, more precisely. The Government won that case, but an $87,417 judgment to another victim, who had been illegally camping in the park, was set aside only on appeal...