Word: deterence
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...report also announced that there will be a new drive to stencil all moveable items like TV sets. Charles U. Daly, vice president for government and community affairs, said success in such an effort would deter criminals from entering Harvard property. The final step is the expansion of Harvard's bus service. Another bus has been acquired to supplement the two now in operation...
...wary of the Soviet system. In his memoirs, published less than a year before his death last week at age 69, Charles Bohlen counseled that "illusion has no place in any negotiations with the Soviet Union." Above all, he maintained, the U.S. must keep its defenses "sufficiently strong to deter the Soviet Union from any possibility of yielding to the temptation of a first strike against the United States...
Prisons are the means with which society claims to execute justice and deter crime. Their actual record, however, proves that they have been miserable failures on both counts. Out of every 100 felonies committed in the Unites States, 27 people are apprehended and only one is convicted. The prison population is heavily weighted towards racial minorities and men of low income, while many middle and upper class offenders are able to escape conviction and prosecution. As consistently high return rates show, prisons have been remarkably ineffective in deterring ex-convicts from returning to crimes. Prison experts claim that the violence...
...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...