Word: victimization
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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Harvard remains the only undefeated, untied squad in the league, but even the Crimson came close to falling victim to a second division team. A goal by Solomon Gomez in the final minute ofplay Saturday pushed Harvard past Cornell...
...months ago, the U.S. National Security Council received a report that if Allende won, a Communist takeover would inevitably follow. With it would come a dismantling of the democratic electoral process. As a Western diplomat put it last week: "Chile is a victim of Communist Russian roulette. Democracy gave the Communists one chance at power every six years. Now they've won, and they'll never give democracy another chance...
What can be done to ease the crisis in casualty insurance? The most important and widely supported reform is "no fault" auto insurance, under which a victim's own policy would cover his loss, no matter who was responsible for the accident. Proponents argue that the system would cut down on today's long delays for litigation, enable seriously injured victims to collect more money sooner, and greatly reduce the insurance companies' administrative costs. Transportation Secretary John Volpe is pressing the White House to back a limited form of no-fault insurance on a nationwide basis...
Between the time the hammer hits the thumb and the brain signals the bad news, there is an instant when the victim is at peace with the absurdity of the situation. Mrs. Wallop prolongs that moment of truce longer and more cleverly than most of Peter De Vries' previous eleven novels...
...tainted American hero Charles A. Lindbergh sighted a lone figure on the beach below. "At 1,000 yards, my .50-calibers are deadly . . . I cannot miss . . . My finger tightens on the trigger. A touch, and he will crumple on the coral sand." But there is something about the potential victim's bearing, stride and dignity "that has formed a bond between us . . . I realize that the life of this unknown stranger-probably an enemy-is worth a thousand times more to me than his death. I should never quite have forgiven myself if I had shot him-naked, courageous...