Word: deterent
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Although the treaty need not require it, Ullman suggests stationing U.S. troops in Israel as part of an alliance. Positioned along the Arab-Israeli borders, the G.I.s might help deter attacks as effectively as they have in South Korea, West Berlin and West Germany. There they act as "trip wires"-their vulnerability serving to convince any potential aggressor of the near impossibility of striking without taking some American lives and thus presumably drawing the U.S. into...
While many of Harvard's most loyal students, faculty and alumni watched the Crimson eleven defeat the New Haven invaders Saturday, other undergraduates did not allow the long-awaited contest to deter them from other pursuits...
Most students who ask for recommendations expect honesty from those whom they ask. That they might not like the evaluations they receive should not deter a professor from writing an honest recommendation, any more than it prevents an instructor from giving a 'D' or an 'E' when he thinks it is deserved. And one might also speculate that the added factor of accountability would eliminate the off-chance of malice and lead to greater rather than less honesty in evaluations...
...remain flexible and swiftly make changes when they are needed. During the months ahead Ford and his advisers may well find that despite their ideological objections they will have to move to selective wage-price controls. As the program stands, it is not likely to do much to immediately deter inflation...
...border region of southern Lebanon known as the Arqub. Since 1969, this area, which fans out from the slopes of Mount Hermon, has been known as "Fatahland" because Palestinian guerrillas regularly cross it from havens in Syria to infiltrate the Israeli border. In reprisal for fedayeen raids, or to deter recurrences, Israeli aircraft, artillery and armored columns have regularly punished the Lebanese countryside. Last week's bombing of Hasbaya, Rashaya Fukhar and four other villages, according to the Lebanese government, marked the 65th Israeli air attack on southern Lebanon; in addition, there have been more than 1,000 artillery...