Word: deterent
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...have a stake in establishing a precedent that will deter future atrocities, in helping the tribunal make a lasting peace easier by separating the innocent from the guilty; in holding accountable the perpetrators of ethnic cleansing; and in seeing that those who consider rape just another tactic of war answer for their crimes. Since George Marshall's time, the United States has played the leading role within the international system--not as sole arbiter of right and wrong, for that is a responsibility widely shared, but as pathfinder--as the nation able to show the way when others cannot...
...produced financial meltdown; or as the generation that laid the groundwork for rising prosperity around the world. We will be known as the world-class ditherers, who stood by while the seeds of renewed global conflict were sown; or as the generation that took strong measures to forge alliances, deter aggression and keep the peace...
MADELEINE ALBRIGHT HARVARD UNIVERSITY "We will be known as the world-class ditherers who stood by while the seeds of renewed global conflict were sown, or as the generations that took strong measures to forge alliances, deter aggression and keep the peace...Ultimately, it is a matter of judgment, a question of choice...
...commend this type of awareness-raising, and welcome similar steps to energize the campus dialogue on this issue. With the constant overturn of students and the secrecy of the clubs, only through such efforts will questionable club activities garner the publicity necessary to deter men from joining and women from attending parties sponsored by them...
...amount over a 15-year period, mandatory minimums would reduce national cocaine consumption by 13 kilograms, while conventional enforcement would cut it by 27 kilograms. Treatment of heavy users would slash usage by more than 100 kilograms. Stiff prison sentences don't do much in the long term to deter drug trafficking because a jailed supplier is often easily replaced. High-level drug lords, who would be deterred by such tough penalties, pay someone else to carry the drugs and take the risk...