Word: deter
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...endangering future economic growth. While presently low interest rates have protected middle-class homeowners from the economic downturn by allowing them to refinance mortgages, large government deficits—and spiked interest rates—would leave these families without such a safety net. Higher interest rates will also deter businesses from borrowing, leaving capital investment stagnated as well...
Both the University and the police are making efforts to deter students from crossing the river—a crime which carries a fine...
...Several people who may not have entirely agreed with us were happy to talk, and when I expressed to them the concern we had that it would deter conversation, they laughed,” Palfrey said. “They laughed and said Harvard students don’t get deterred by anything like that, and they said, we know you, and we know you espouse discussion of every point of view...
Frigid temperatures did not deter the Harvard nordic and alpine skiers as they launched into action last weekend at the season-opening UNH College Carnival...
Wolfowitz has built a following, thanks to his prescience. In the 1970s he advocated bolstering the U.S. military presence in the Persian Gulf to deter Iraq from someday invading Kuwait or Saudi Arabia. He helped shape the hard-line Reagan-era policies toward the Soviet Union that conservatives credit with ending the cold war. In 1990 he called for pre-emptive strikes against enemy states trying to obtain weapons of mass destruction--precisely the shift in U.S. strategy that the Administration announced last fall. But other proposals by Wolfowitz have been dismissed as reckless--such as his suggestion during...