Word: deter
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That such environments deter student achievement is evident. Take Jared M. Fleisher ’05, who attended an inner-city school in Los Angeles with shoddy facilities and under-prepared teachers. “The resources made it such that everybody was apathetic,” he said. “[The problem was] the physical environment of the school itself. It wasn’t an environment that anybody wanted to be in.” Just as the problem in Fleisher’s school does not stem from the inadequate testing or poor curriculum, neither...
Formed after World War I, the League epitomized President Woodrow Wilson’s stated commitment to building a new world order that would preserve democracy and prevent international conflict (even though the United States, because of domestic political bickering, never actually joined). Yet its feebleness and inability to deter violent aggression quickly became apparent. In 1923, Fascist Italy shelled and occupied the Greek island of Corfu. There were protests in the League against the Italian bombardment, but no credible response was authorized. Then, in 1931, Japanese armed forces took over the Chinese province of Manchuria and subsequently established...
...necessarily come from endless attempts at diplomacy. An international body dedicated to preserving harmony among the nations of the world must be willing to exercise force if one of its members repeatedly contravenes its rules and resolutions. the threat of military action must be believable in order to deter tyrannical leaders; otherwise, the organization will make itself immaterial and irrelevant, as the League of Nations ultimately...
...target--even while prime targets went undefended. "These threats are real," says Brian Jenkins, a terrorism expert at the Rand Corp., "but the increased probability of a terrorist attack does not increase the risks to any single individual." At the same time, even strengthening our defenses won't deter terrorists forever. The truth is, we probably have no way of knowing whether the country is prepared for the next attack until after it occurs. --Reported by Timothy J. Burger, James Carney, John F. Dickerson, Viveca Novak, Elaine Shannon and Michael Weisskopf/Washington, Maggie Sieger/Detroit, Leslie Whitaker/Chicago, Steve Barnes/Little Rock and Leslie...
...that he needed more time for inspections, which he said were going well. An armed Iraq poses a threat to U.S. national security, and forcibly disarming Iraq may become necessary, but without the backing of the U.N.—and without giving inspections a fair chance to deter and contain the threat of Iraqi arms under Saddam Hussein’s control—it would be misguided and counterproductive...