Word: deterant
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Britain, the minister himself takes on this judicial function and polices his own department. Though he was once responsible to Parliament for his conduct, the party system ended that. Only the remote possibility that he would harm the party's success in the next general claxon would deter his abuses...
...well aware of the possibility of the NCAA berth, and went after it vigorously in the final period. The Crimson did little to deter the effort. John Danby knocked in a ten-footer at 3:28 to make it 5-1, and even Crimson wing Jack Turco's seventh goal of the tournament failed to keep Harvard alive...
...people and one act of violence endangering property or other people. According to some scholars, anyone who crosses a state line intending to join a demonstration that becomes violent now runs the risk of Government prosecution, even though others incite the ruckus. As critics see it, the law might deter even orderly expressions of grievances-and is unnecessary, since every state already has numerous laws for punishing incitement or disorderly conduct...
...submachine guns in the baggage aboard a Beirut-bound Swissair plane and arrested two Arab suspects. But authorities despair of ever developing foolproof security. Says one: "If a man is dedicated enough to die for a cause, air-piracy laws and the threat of extradition are not likely to deter him, are they...