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...expansion spared both superpowers the cost of installing many units of the defensive systems. It also would help to deter nuclear war, according to the Strangelove theory of strategic analysts, by exposing the civilian populations in both countries to attack. This policy of "mutually assured destruction," strategists believe, has been largely responsible over the years for preventing nuclear...
...sufficient response to the police failure to tell him he could have a free lawyer. The testimony of Tucker's friend, Rehnquist concluded, could properly be used because it served the trial purpose of discovering the pertinent facts. Moreover, banning the testimony was not likely to deter similar police misconduct in the future, since the police misconduct in this case preceded Miranda...
...their importance to the firm and then stressing the firm's importance to Harvard. So, Putnam and the search committee decided that they would grant an interview to every organization that requested one. They designed a very extensive questionnaire to send to all of the firms, intended partly to deter those not seriously interested and partially to allow the search committee to go into the interview with a reasonable amount of knowledge about each company...
Last season's defensive team remains intact and Munro hopes its heroics will be sufficient to deter opposing offenses until his green attackmen and midfielders develop some strong scoring punch...
Whether his statement that "there is a better than even chance" there will be no need for gas rationing in the United States this year helped to defer people's minds from the continuing revelations of Watergate is open to question. It did not, however, deter the press...