Word: deterred
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...continued concentrating as much as it has on the nuclear balance. As long ago as the mid-1960s, when targets in the U.S. first became vulnerable to Soviet ICBMS, the threat of massive nuclear retaliation lost some of its credibility, and thus some of its ability to deter Soviet aggression. Would U.S. leaders really defend Western Europe by launching a nuclear strike against the U.S.S.R. if that could trigger a devastating Soviet counterstrike at New York or Los Angeles? The question echoes more loudly now that the U.S. no longer boasts strategic superiority. As Kissinger put it in Brussels...
...times, Shaplen sacrifices style for comprehensiveness, and A Turning Wheel degenerates into an encyclopedic rendition of facts and events. A tendency toward run-on sentences packed with references and acronyms may deter the novice. But if Shaplen has only written the encyclopedia of modern Asia, it is a reference work that is desperately needed. As one might expect, the author is at his best in relatively uncharted territory; the chapters on Burma, Malaysia and Indonesia are not only fascinating, but promise to fill gaps in most people's knowledge...
Many of the stores in the Harvard area have resorted to expensive security systems to deter the mounting losses. The Coop has a network of plainclothes agents throughout the store. Serendipity and The Discount Book Seller both have detector systems though which their clientele must pass as they leave...
Powers said the students will press charges because "the public should know" what occured, and because the "violators of rights should be punished, to deter similar action at other protests, "We're looking toward the future," he said, adding, "if no action is brought, the police will have a carte blanche in the future." He also said he believes the students are entitled to monetary compensation for both "pain and suffering" and the violation of their rights...
...nations of the world is a breakdown of a common effort to preserve the peace, and the ultimate threat of a nuclear war." At the same time, Carter ordered a series of limited diplomatic and military moves that are designed to keep closer watch on Cuba and to deter the Soviets from further adventurism in the Caribbean and elsewhere...