Word: deterent
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...example of Japan, that other phoenix risen from the ashes of World War II, and learned to be an economic superpower without wanting, or even needing, commensurate military might. But like everyone else, the Germans will certainly want safety. They will want to know who is going to deter whatever threat they still feel from the missiles and bombers of others...
...trouble is, NATO is broken, at least conceptually. Its reason for being was to deter the Soviet Union from launching an invasion through West Germany to the English Channel. With that danger diminished to the vanishing point, NATO is already undergoing its own deconstruction, more subtle, dignified and gradual than that of the Warsaw Pact but in the long run just as relentless...
...spite of the gold rush, the awakening region has pitfalls to investment that can deter all but the hardiest risk takers. Since East European currencies cannot be readily converted into dollars or other hard cash, Westerners must often take their profits in bartered goods, such as clothing or foodstuffs, which can be sold in other Western countries. At the same time, the area remains plagued by grasping bureaucrats, archaic trade rules and primitive roads, phone systems and factories. Says Jan Vanous, research director of Plan-Econ, a Washington-based consulting group that studies Eastern Europe: "Investing there is really...
...policy] may deter some people who have had consulting relationships predating their research relationship," Blumenthal said...
That did not deter Eugene Terre Blanche, leader of the A.W.B., from staging a military drill of 300 of his "officers," whose job, he said, will be to establish countrywide commando groups to oppose a black government. When Law and Order Minister Adriaan Vlok arrived on a fact-finding trip, he met a heavily armed A.W.B. contingent outside the Welkom police station. Its Land Rover carried a bumper sticker reading IF GUNS ARE OUTLAWED, HOW CAN WE SHOOT LIBERALS? "There is no force in this world," says Terre Blanche, "that will stop ((Afrikaners)) from defending themselves." Vlok has given...