Word: deterence
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Kodak at first regarded Land's invention as a toy whose high price ($88 initially) and complexity would deter the average snapshooter. But the camera sold well. In the 1960s, when Polaroid's prices dropped dramatically (as little as $20 for a Swinger), Kodak began cracking on its own process. Says David Eisendrath, a photo consultant for TIME and Modern Photography: "Kodak finally realized what Polaroid knew from the start-that there are people who want to take good pictures, and other people who want to see them as fast as possible. The latter group is much larger...
...suggesting to the authors "that legislation prescribing mandatory capital punishment for premeditated or felony-murder would not be mandatory in effect." Supporters of mandatory executions answer that the new capital punishment laws do as well as is humanly and systemically possible and that the death penalty is necessary to deter violent crime...
...Robinson Rojas Sanford makes clear in The Murder of Allende, the weakness of Allende's political power was trivial compared to the threat of military rebellion. The Chilean armed forces, whose function until then had been to deter an unlikely Peruvian invasion and to suppress internal dissent, clearly held veto power over the Popular Unity government. But Allende, though imprisoned by these restrictions, refused to acknowledge them, speaking as though socialism had taken hold in Chile. His temerity and the myth of an apolitical armed forces made the coup a great surprise to those who had believed...
...word détente. He complained that the decision was a petty capitulation to right-wing critics and tended to undercut the long-range policy the Administration intends to pursue. Publicly Kissinger made a point of reasserting that the U.S. would continue its "dual policy" of attempting to resist and deter Soviet adventurism while striving for "more constructive relations" with the Kremlin...
...threat of the secret police on campus does not deter Keenan, who says he is not sure whether to believe all the reports of their role in classes. He says he has "no other information" than what he reads in the Village Voice, adding that he doesn't know anybody who does know more. Keenan doesn't doubt the existence of the secret police; rather, he applies his principle of moral calculus to them. "As someone who spends most of his waking hours dealing with a country with which a good deal more is known about the secret police...