Word: deterent
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...went north of $1 million, but whose cards weren't what you'd call a sure thing. Long after lower-paid mortals folded, Damon continued to bet like a winner; he'd arrived at the table with $200 and left only $20 poorer, which of course did nothing to deter the amiable grin that rarely leaves his soon-to-be-familiar face...
Toomey said he supports the death penalty primarily because of its potential to deter criminals and protect local citizens...
That does not, however, deter Vice President Al Gore, who lives in a state of perpetual environmental anxiety and will seize whatever weather event is at hand to justify it. Addressing the El Nino Community Preparedness Summit in Santa Monica, Calif., last month, Gore was quite unwilling to let El Nino speak for itself. After describing in lurid detail its predicted effects, he went into the presumed effects of global warming. Then, having set the trap, he sprang it: "While there is no definite link between El Ninos and overall climate change," he said (referring to global warming...
...editors may find this to be a politically charged word, but so is the phrase "people of color." The fact that some people will always take words that are correct, and call them "politically correct," as a method of implying that they are not really correct, should not deter The Crimson editors from making it a policy to report accurately...
...that is bad. Slamming on the brakes of a runaway market may help prevent a worse crash later. Also, devaluation of Asian currencies will make Asian exports cheaper, help keep inflation at bay in the U.S. and deter the Federal Reserve from raising interest rates...