Word: deterent
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...KHODORKOVSKY, 41, former chief of Russian oil giant Yukos, who became the country's wealthiest oligarch after the collapse of the Soviet Union; on charges including tax evasion and fraud; ending a nearly yearlong trial that critics claimed was part of a politically motivated campaign by the Kremlin to deter the billionaire from financing opposition to Vladimir Putin; in Moscow. Khodorkovsky, whose dwindled fortune was once estimated at $15 billion, was sentenced to nine years in jail...
Altorki's bigger fear is that the Vioxx scare will deter researchers from doing enough work on COX-2 to understand its true role in cancer. "If we do these studies and they show no evidence of efficacy, then I'm wrong. I'll get off that train and get on another," he says. "But it's important that we find...
Gluckman said that she thought it made sense to put together a database and that such a precaution would deter students from plagiarizing in the future...
...John founded their business, Louie was an electrical engineer. It’s not clear what John did. He evades the question, claiming that he needs to maintain a tough reputation. The stripping business is a quick-shifting world, and the rumors of John’s mob ties deter others from stealing his customers by sending their strippers to parties that John has already booked...
...also asserted that the failure to secure Snoop Dogg this Spring would not deter future concert efforts...