Word: deterent
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...Deter or Disarm...
...illegal substance is all that matters.” TOKE’N EFFECTThe Aid Elimination Penalty’s author and primary proponent, Congressman Mark E. Souder (R-Ind.), told USA Today in 2000 that the penalty’s purpose would be to “deter students from using and selling drugs.”The law has since drawn fire from experts in various fields—mostly for the inequity of its effects, they say.“The Higher Education Act is a barrier to education that primarily punishes working-class Americans...
...issue is nothing less than how best to deter a Soviet nuclear attack ... The U.S., [Weinberger] insists, must ... get ready to fight against Soviet or Soviet-inspired thrusts in several areas at once-the Persian Gulf, Central America, Africa and Central Europe ... 'WE MUST BE ABLE TO DEFEND OURSELVES IN WARS OF ANY SIZE AND SHAPE AND IN ANY REGION.' Some critics counter with the argument that the U.S. cannot police the world and that such simultaneous wars are not likely. The fact is that U.S. weakness makes them much likelier. Moreover, Weinberger insists, military planners can no longer assume...
...advocated the legalization of torture in the United States. Roth said that they might have the best intentions in mind, but that they overlook crucial problems in their proposal. Instead of focusing on torturing terrorists to make them talk, the United States should fight terrorism by combatting active terrorists, deterring “would-be terrorists,” and punishing those who have already commited terrorists acts, Roth said. Roth said that most useful information about terrorist attacks is gathered from the general public. Legalizing torture, he said, would make people more reluctant to help the police since people...
...that is the case--if much of the negative feeling regarding Opus at this point is displaced anger over the direction of the church--then The Da Vinci Code may be the best fate that could befall it. The movie will not deter Opus' usual constituency--conservative Catholics do not look to Ron Howard for guidance. But by forcing Opus into greater transparency, the film could aid it: if the organization is as harmless and "mature" as Bohlin contends, then such exposure could bring in a bumper crop of devotees--with perhaps even more to come if, as seems likely...