Word: victimness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Reject winter and denies its existence. The Reject hates mercury and judges temperature by sunshine. Oftentimes without jacket, scarf or gloves, The Reject can be spotted dashing through the Yard, hands buried in a barn jacket-a true fashion victim. Living such a risky lifestyle. The Reject can often become a Sniffler. FM advice to The Reject: www.weather.com...
Police classified almost half of street robberies as "predatory," or involving threats to hurt the victim...
...wake of Diallo's death, the people of New York looked to Mayor Rudolph Giuliani to reach out to the victim's parents and denounce the atrocity. Yet Giuliani, a former federal prosecutor and staunch defended of the NYPD, has not followed the lead of the Attorney General and others who have condemned the police officers for their actions. Instead, Guiliani points to N.Y. City's declining crime rate as an implicit justification for the city's aggressive crime fighting...
FLESH AND BONES. Treating bone cells right is what Charles Vacanti, an anesthesiologist and director of the Center for Tissue Engineering, has been doing at the University of Massachusetts Medical Center in Worcester. When that machinist lopped off the top of his thumb, Vacanti took some of the victim's bone cells, grew them in the lab and then injected them into a piece of coral fashioned into the shape of the missing digit. "Coral's got lots of interconnected channels for the bone cells to grow in," says Vacanti. It also degrades as bone replaces it. The patch...
...synergistic partnerships modeled on the YankeeNets venture. It's been obvious for years that the Red Sox and Cubs were destined for each other. And the hapless Golden State Warriors would make a natural match with, say, the Minnesota Timberwolves. But it won't be until the Celtics fall victim to a hostile takeover by the Lakers that we'll be sure corporate culture has made the big leagues...