Word: victimizer
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...rush into anything that is unsafe. We do want you to rush into looking at the problem." In this he was supported by the sober-looking crowd at the front of the ballroom. "You look at that," said Barbara Johns, whose 18-year-old daughter Courtney was the first victim identified after the crash, "and you wonder, If these are known safety problems, why aren't they correcting them before people die? That's the answer we'd like--because people we love are still flying...
SEOUL: South Korea, it would seem, has cleaned house. Frustrated by its fall from economic grace and tired of the corrupt and self-serving regimes of the past four decades, voters Thursday elected a man who has been outsider, dissident, and victim of the government for most of those 40 years...
...February 1991, it took prosecutors four years just to indict Blondie & Co. for their illegal activities, and it was more than another year before they were sentenced to prison on April 15, 1996. "No matter the substance of complaints against cops," says McGuire, "if it's only the victim's word against the cop's, it's a hard road to travel, and it always takes too much time." For the city and federal prosecutors considering Colbert's complaint, getting Ryan to "rat out" proved easy. "If Ryan had held fast, they couldn't have got us," says Blondie...
Hunt proves that a performer can do fine work and lots of it, be respected for what she does and loved for who she is, without falling victim to the excesses of sex, drugs and lock-'er-up. Shouldn't that be worth just one tabloid headline? NORMAL WOMAN CONQUERS SHOW...
McAllister is on the mark in asserting that "the biggest obstacles to killing Saddam aren't moral or legal but practical." Americans who are squeamish about political assassinations may be surprised to learn that one advocate of tyrannicide was Abraham Lincoln, himself the victim of an assassin's bullet. Lincoln believed that when a people have suffered under a tyrant for a long time, all legal and peaceful means to oust him have been exhausted and prospects for his early departure are grim, then the people have a right to remove him by drastic means. McAllister is correct: this...