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MADELEINE ALBRIGHT HARVARD UNIVERSITY "We will be known as the world-class ditherers who stood by while the seeds of renewed global conflict were sown, or as the generations that took strong measures to forge alliances, deter aggression and keep the peace...Ultimately, it is a matter of judgment, a question of choice...
...commend this type of awareness-raising, and welcome similar steps to energize the campus dialogue on this issue. With the constant overturn of students and the secrecy of the clubs, only through such efforts will questionable club activities garner the publicity necessary to deter men from joining and women from attending parties sponsored by them...
...amount over a 15-year period, mandatory minimums would reduce national cocaine consumption by 13 kilograms, while conventional enforcement would cut it by 27 kilograms. Treatment of heavy users would slash usage by more than 100 kilograms. Stiff prison sentences don't do much in the long term to deter drug trafficking because a jailed supplier is often easily replaced. High-level drug lords, who would be deterred by such tough penalties, pay someone else to carry the drugs and take the risk...
...mother would determine whether a black child was a slave or free. Three years later, Maryland went a step further, declaring that if either of a child's parents was a slave, the child would also be. The purpose of this law, its authors said, was to deter "divers freeborn English women" from marrying black slaves. But it did nothing to deter white male slave owners from trying to expand their human holdings by impregnating black female slaves...
When asked about risk of injury due to equipment he said that there isn't any intrinsic danger in the sport that would deter people from supporting...