Word: victimizer
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...system to thwart telephone thieves that was developed by aerospace conglomerate TRW. The pirates typically use radio scanners to record the serial number and subscriber identity number that each cellular phone transmits at the start of a call. Then they program the numbers into their own phones, leaving the victim to get the bills. But TRW engineers have come up with a proprietary method for analyzing and storing a third signature of cellular phones -- their unique radio-frequency signal, which cannot be cloned...
...lonely women who had been made foolish and poorer by the gigolo and his lieutenants were listed, sensitively, on the federal indictment only as Victim A, Victim B and so forth. But Victim L was identified there on the page: Helen Brach, the candy heiress who vanished 17 years ago. Where had she gone? Her name was on the ledger with Rub the Lamp, Belgium Waffle, Rainman, Roseau Platiere and Empire -- Thoroughbred horses that had been murdered for the insurance. Brach's body has never been found...
...Simpson case has grown into a national obsession, many of those same blacks have begun to perceive Simpson as one more victim of the white power system. There is talk of a "white-media conspiracy" to embarrass African Americans by toppling yet another black icon -- as happened to Clarence Thomas, Michael Jackson and Mike Tyson. The saturation of TV coverage appalls many blacks. "It's suspect when all networks on television turn into Court TV," says the Rev. Al Sharpton, a New York political activist. The proliferation of black talking heads called upon to comment on racial aspects...
...emotional triumphs of these nice American soldiers, and hardly a Vietnamese even appears. There are precious few villains: only the boys who throw rocks at young Gump, Jenny's sexually abusive father and the sds leader who slaps her around. Everyone else is either a celebrity or a victim...
...mastodon graveyard, which conatins what he calls a "cynical metaphor" for Los Angeles: the skeleton of a woman who died about 9,000 years ago."Her skull was bashed in by a blunt object: this first Angeleno, the wall label tells you, was also LA's first known homicide victim...