Word: deterence
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...made between such utterly different types of action as cheating and sitting-in. The Faculty has felt it necessary to consider so many "special" problems in the aftermath of the Dow and Paine Hall punishments simply because these punishments are inappropriate responses to the political activities they seek to deter...
...matter of law, he said, no reasonable person could dispute their liability. The jury of eight Negroes and four whites then called for $21,500 actual damages, plus $1,000,000 punitive damages. Said Attorney Martha Wood: "We hope that an award of this size will deter such acts in the future...
...Chinese frontier." When Dubček tried to explain that his side had fulfilled the conditions of the first Moscow accord, Soviet President Nikolai Podgorny ordered him to shut up. The Russians told the Czechoslovaks not to hope that outrage among the free world's Communist parties would deter the Kremlin from cracking down harder on Czechoslovakia. In the words of one Russian, "For the next 30 or 40 years, socialism has no chance in the capitalist West," All in all, Dr. Gustav Husak, the Slovak party leader who was a delegation member, later confided to friends: "They treated...
...then there is button-on-a-string. Versions of this simple plaything may be as old as the Pyramids. But that did not deter Kramer Designs of Royal Oak, Mich., from producing a pop copy with twin twirling plastic disks in psychedelic hues. When the string is pulled taut, the disks whirl apart, then clop together in mid-spin, sounding like a shark with loose plates chewing on an oyster. Op-Yop is its name. At $1 each, Kramer has sold 1,000,000 of them to date, confidently expects to sell another million by Christmas...
...that did not deter demonstrators...