Although the newspapers were full of speculation about possible motives over the course of the next few days, family members reached by reporters had no idea why he was the clear victim of a planned hit.
Sales of DaimlerChrysler's Mercedes-Benz cars, meanwhile, are essentially flat, and its M-Class SUV is the clear victim of BMW's dominance in this segment, with sales off 11% so far this year.
Historians have suggested that the Triangle fire is better remembered because the poor immigrant women who died were the clear victims of exploitative owners at a time of intense labor struggle.
They are subject to dubious employment schemes that block their access to social and labour rights, they spend their nights and weekends in their lorries or in substandard accommodation such as improvised barracks, feed on canned food, have no access to basic facilities such as toilets and showers, and drive around Europe on low wages – the clear victims of social dumping.
"The Spanish economy is the clearest victim of the credit crunch, just as it was the main beneficiary of the credit boom", says Michael Hume at Lehman Brothers.
More than four million children under five years old are now at risk of acute malnutrition in the Sahel, an area of the world that is one of the clearest victims of the rich world's addiction to fossil fuels.
Perhaps the clearest victims of the slump have been the start-up makers of "very light jets," or V.L.J.'s, once seen as a market niche of quasi-revolutionary potential, and now dismissed as "irrelevant" by Richard Aboulafia, the vice president of Teal Group, an aviation industry consulting firm in Fairfax, Virginia.
The dog often influences the course a man takes, on his long walk; for sometimes a dog runs into something in nature so arresting that not even a man can quite ignore it, and the man deviates-a clear victim of the liberal intent of his dumb companion.
Russian interference in the election has become so well known that it is easy to forget a truth that is distilled in the complaint:the intervention was, in significant part, a crime and one with a clear victim, the D.N.C. itself.
The revised complaint by Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington, or CREW, is an effort to address what some saw as a critical weakness in the group's original lawsuit: the lack of a clear victim who could claim injuries resulting from Mr. Trump's failure either to sell off his business holdings or to place them in a blind trust.
"That does hurt a clear victim: the poor fool who doesn't get the allocation and is buying in the secondary market".
