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...police rely on the camera device mainly to deter crime. They advertise the fact that it is in operation, and passers-by are welcome to come into the mobile home and take a look. The men on duty will demonstrate to visitors how the system works and even go to the extent of showing the locations of the camera. Criminals have got the word. At least some of them are staying out of range of the big eye, but jittery merchants feel that it is too early to tell if the cameras will do much to clean up the neighborhood...
Lenin's analysis broke down because it failed to account for the strength of nationalism among people in the advanced capitalist powers. Internationalist sentiment persisted on the Europeanleft after the war, but it never gained enough leverage to deter imperialism. Internationalist and anti-imperialist feeling in the United States was even more helpless in the face of the emerging American collossus several decades later...
...that they have a toilet and we don't." The Bramans, pioneers of Minnesota tailgating, have been throwing parties since 1961. They are traditionalists with rules for their party: no gambling, no chewing out the players after a bad game, no hard liquor. The restrictions do not deter Vikings players from congregating at the Braman "club" after the game, swapping stories, and drinking beer, which the Bramans do permit. "I look for the pennant on the bamboo stick after every home game," says Defensive Lineman Bob Lurtsema. "If I can't find it, I go back...
...response to a question from the audience Coles said. "No penal system will work. Life sentences won't deter some people from doing anything...
...students? Hardly. But it is important to intimate activists so that the return of B.U. ROTC will provoke no organized protest. Nothing is so frightening as the successful exercise of arbitrary power. Even an overwhelming CLA faculty vote last month "insisting" that the hearings be halted has failed to deter the administration in prosecuting the five students...