Word: deter
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...Three days before ASHOK KUMAR died, he had consented to commemorate a postage stamp for the late Raj Kapoor, great showman of Indian movies. It was going to be a glitzy Bombay function and illness was not going to deter the 90-year-old actor from celebrating a colleague's life. But a cardiac arrest did. And thus ended the six-decade career of a film laboratory assistant who became one of Bollywood's most celebrated heroes. My fondest memory of Kumar is from 1958 when he acted in one of my father's films, Mr. X, playing...
Sending aid or promising goodies hasn't yet convinced any of the Muslim nations of our love for them [THE WAR, Nov. 26]. Nor will it. Dropping or threatening to drop nuclear bombs won't deter a single terrorist anywhere. Those who threaten the U.S. have nothing to lose and no fear of death. The only ex-terrorist is a dead terrorist. The only friendly Muslim nation is one that doesn't raise a significant clamor for America's demise. We cannot do anything to change this. We are in a war that the U.S. can neither win nor lose...
...construction of a missile defense shield, one of its long-term goals and expressly prohibited by the ABM treaty. The shield, which could cost upwards of $80 billion, is not, Bush maintains, meant to in any way threaten Russia or any other "big power," but is rather meant to deter missile attacks from rogue nations - a possibility the administration considers more likely in the post-9/11 world...
TEEN SMOKING The awareness of health risks and the prospect of parental punishment rarely seem to deter middle and high school students from experimenting with cigarettes. But a Florida program has found that the threat of legal penalties can reduce teen smoking up to 40%. According to a study published in Health, Education & Behavior, in Florida counties where underage smoking laws are strictly enforced and penalties include being fined or losing a driver's license, students were far less likely to smoke than were students in lower-enforcement areas...
...funded his research with more than $1 million, and a former FBI point man for biological and chemical weapons has joined Farwell's firm. Critics say that p300-type testing needs a lot of refinement before it's a perfect polygraph, but such criticism doesn't deter Farwell. "The fundamental task in law enforcement and espionage and counterespionage is to determine the truth," he says. "My philosophy is that there is a tremendous cost in failing to apply the technology...