Word: deter
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...prospect of contracting a fatal illness apparently isn't enough to deter most people from engaging in unsafe sex, a new study suggests. European researchers found that, in a sample of 256 couples in which one partner was infected with the AIDS virus, 52 percent did not regularly use condoms for vaginal or anal intercourse. The study will be published tomorrow in the New England Journal of Medicine...
...work freely, and his subsequent refusals to live up to them, are part of a stalling game. His aim may be to string the West along until the end of the year, when he could have the plutonium for six or eight atom bombs -- which might be enough to deter attack or blackmail a neighbor. By this theory, confrontation -- even war -- may be the only way to stop...
Crimes in all three categories have been documented in Bosnia. "The credibility of international humanitarian law demands a tribunal to hold accountable those responsible," says Theodor Meron, professor of international law at New York University Law School. He suggests that such trials "should deter those who envisage 'final solutions' to their conflicts with ethnic and religious minorities." Says Tilman Zulch, director of Germany's Society for Threatened Peoples in Gottingen: "I think we have to show that we've learned something. We have to show where genocide leads...
...possibility of revolution, which prompted foreign banks to stop lending for fear their money would be lost, that was mostly responsible for the white minority's finally ceding power. If, as it seems, North Korea's nukes have become central to the Kims' sense of themselves, no sanctions will deter their desire to expand whatever it is that they already have. Nor will sanctions reduce the probability that they will sell their nuclear technology (and the means to use it), just as they have marketed every other weapons system they have produced. Short of an unlikely diplomatic breakthrough...
...everyone, however, thinks that society can afford to deter unlicensed drivers by threatening them with jail. "It would be prohibitively expensive to incarcerate people on that level, and there is a legitimate question of whether it is the appropriate punishment to fit the crime," says Dave DeYoung, a research analyst at the California department of motor vehicles. While 60% to 70% of suspended California motorists ignore the sanctions, many of them take pains to avoid being caught and fined again. "They tend to drive less often and more carefully," says DeYoung. "The letter of the law is being violated...