Word: deterent
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...serious concern of physicians is that if 900 services catch on, they will deter patients from establishing a rapport with their family doctor and cause them to miss out on vital ongoing preventive advice. "A cornerstone of good medical care is continuity and getting to know a patient as an individual," explains Isaacman. "This service is going to discourage that kind of care and encourage patients to seek a quick, temporary...
...detail Operation KK Mountain, in which the CIA secretly paid Israel as much as $20 million annually throughout the 1960s to operate as its surrogate in the Third World. Security sources also told the writers that the Israelis have placed remote-controlled nuclear devices in the Golan Heights to deter an invasion by Syria...
...more than anything else, argues University of Denver psychologist Paul Block, "is some proof of our control of the international situation, to make things go the way we want them to, to prevent people from doing what we consider to be wrong." The swiftness of the allied victory would deter future invaders; America's leverage in war would be the best guarantor of peace...
What does St. George do if the dragon runs away? Something like that question confronts the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. Since its founding 42 years ago, NATO has built a mighty military machine to deter a massive Soviet-led invasion of Western Europe. But the dragon that breathed genuine fire for so many years is slinking back into its cave. As many as a million troops that were once available -- at least on paper -- to mount a communist blitzkrieg are melting away. The dissolution of the Warsaw Pact two months ago removed some 500,000 soldiers of Moscow's former...
...said all polls he's seen in the past week indicate high majorities against identifying rape victims. Rape is a crime on the increase, Bludworth said, and he believes identifying victims would deter them from reporting the assault against them...