Word: victimizer
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...graduate student was the victim of an indecent assault last Thursday morning, according to a community advisory issued by the Cambridge Police Department that...
Americans first developed stun technology in the early 1970s as a nonlethal way for police to incapacitate violent criminals. Shaped like small flashlights or cellular phones and powered by store-bought batteries, stun rods deliver a series of millisecond-long shocks that cause muscles to contract, leaving the victim writhing and twitching on the ground. In the U.S., for example, Nova Products Inc., in Cookeville, Tenn., sells a Police Special to law agencies that delivers 75,000 volts from two metal tips at the end of the prod. Air Taser Inc., in Scottsdale, Ariz., manufactures an air gun that...
...million advance is not a shocker anymore," says Peter Breen, managing editor of Book Publishing Report. Ironically, it was Newhouse who developed the high-price strategy, says Thomas Maier, author of Newhouse, on the theory that, as in Hollywood, the hits could carry the dogs. "He became a victim of this theory and opened the door for media conglomerates to enter the world of book publishing," Maier notes...
...guarded, perhaps not the most likable person around, but smart and honest. The stakes are high in your career; pleasures are morphing into pressures. Then you have what seems like an innocuous conversation, and things change. Someone is playing tricks on you, making your life hell. You are the victim of a long con. Hey, it's only business. The American...
Abusive partners do everything in their powerto prevent financial independence, says Cloud. Theabusive partner might beat a victim so badly thatthe bruises become too embarrassing to show inpublic. Others verbally harass victims so thattheir self-confidence is destroyed...