Word: deterent
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan of New York called for huge tax increases, ranging from 11% to 50%, on handgun bullets, to deter their use. He wants to tack his proposal onto the President's health-care bill, saying he cannot imagine the Senate Finance Committee, of which he is chairman, approving a health-reform bill without such a provision...
Schier said the Commission's attempts to notify voters of current polling locations will actually increase voter awareness rather than deter voters from going to the polls...
...exposed, in fact. Last week three planes ferrying refugees and wounded soldiers were attacked with missiles, killing more than 100 people. But even the blackened wreckage fails to deter those who are still trapped. "Couldn't they at least send cargo planes to take us out of this hell?" sobbed a woman on the tarmac, clutching the hand of her bewildered daughter. "Nobody cares for us at all. Nobody...
...congressional liberals are still bound to resist expanding capital punishment, especially given the absence of evidence that doing so will actually prevent violent crime. "If you can show me how adding 50 more death- penalty provisions is going to deter one person, then I am for it," says Michigan Congressman John Conyers, a leader of the Congressional Black Caucus. "Why not 100 more? How about I reach your 100 and I bid 110, and someone else that's tougher on crime is for 150? So what? The one thing that's been proved in my 30 years in this business...
Perhaps, but will that deter further attacks? The case might never have been cracked without the help of Salem. FBI agents insist he did not drop into their lap: they were led to him by contacts carefully cultivated in the Muslim community. "There was some damn good police work involved," says one. But it seems unlikely that a similarly highly placed informant could be located in every incipient terrorist group. And, says former FBI director William Webster, there are "dozens and dozens" of similar groups around the country; their very lack of central organization or direction makes them difficult...