Word: deterent
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...barely a trace. Above all, the paramount U.N. duty of keeping the peace is in disgrace. All those recent ambitions of using the Security Council as the vehicle of a post-cold war new world order, with the Permanent Five members exercising a broad mandate from sympathetic countries to deter war, have proved as futile as a stop sign in a demolition derby. What went wrong...
...seen the chair," said Leaster, "and I'm saying to myself, 'How can Governor Weld say that we've got to lose innocent people to deter crime?' When I was convicted, if they'd had the death penalty I would have got it and I'm innocent...
...these risks don't and shouldn't deter people from participating in sports. Before Roy was injured, he was having the time of his life playing hockey for the defending national champion Terriers...
...rubble with artillery, ground troops and air strikes. In fact, Russian leaders repudiated any proposals for negotiations by the Chechen side and dismissed reports of human-rights violations and appalling atrocities committed by Russian troops. Now, when circumstances call for genuine action in the Balkans, Russia wants to deter any progress and is calling for peace talks despite massive evidence of the Bosnian Serbs' failure to keep their promises. NITIN UMAPATHI Bangalore, India Via E-mail...
...psychologist at the University of British Columbia. Hare found that psychopaths, when hooked up to electrodes and told they are going to receive a shock, show none of the visceral responses that fear of pain typically triggers: rapid heartbeat, sweating and so on. How could the threat of punishment deter such people from committing crimes...