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Record 1 2024-02-22

English

Subject field(s)
  • Surgery
CONT

In late 1980, however, 58-year-old plastic surgeon Dr. Fu Longyu entered the fray, committing what would once have been a double heresy by opening a private practice devoted exclusively to EYE LIFTS.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Chirurgie

Spanish

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Record 2 1999-12-20

English

Subject field(s)
  • Criminology
  • Criminal Psychology
DEF

A person who kills in a sudden, random, and apparently motiveless manner, especially one who kills a number of people at a single location in such an attack.

OBS

A kind of multiple murderer, the other being a serial killer.

CONT

Richard Speck was not really a serial killer, but what I call a "spree killer. "One terrible night in Chicago during the late 1960s, he had entered a house with the intent of robbing it, and found student nurses there.... He tied them up.... One by one, he took them into another room, assaulted them, and then killed eight of them, mainly so they could not identify him.

OBS

spree killer: Term believed to be coined by former FBI detective Robert Ressler.

Key term(s)
  • spree killing

French

Domaine(s)
  • Criminologie
  • Psychologie criminelle
CONT

Contrairement au meurtrier de masse, qui ne frappe généralement qu'une seule fois au cours de sa vie, mais de façon spectaculaire, le tueur en série tue tant et aussi longtemps qu'il n'est pas appréhendé.

Spanish

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Record 3 1999-10-27

English

Subject field(s)
  • Remuneration (Personnel Management)
CONT

The baby boom generation---those born between 1945 and 1960, has influenced many trends as it has matured. In the ’60s and ’70s, they needed schools. In the ’80s, they needed housing as they started their own families. In the ’90s, as front-end boomers-now in their late 40s and early 50s-entered their prime earning years, everything from sport utility vehicles to gourmet frozen entrees experienced a boom. And now, it's retirement savings.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Rémunération (Gestion du personnel)

Spanish

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Record 4 1987-07-21

English

Subject field(s)
  • Skiing and Snowboarding
OBS

Cross country ski terms.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Ski et surf des neiges
OBS

Termes de ski de fond.

Spanish

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