Word: deterred
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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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...
Arriving in Washington, Rabin maintained that "only a strong Israel, which has the capacity to deter aggression and to defend herself successfully by her own strength, has a chance of winning peace." In Jerusalem, those words were interpreted as a thinly disguised warning that Israel, if it felt it was losing the ability to defend itself, might once again decide on a pre-emptive war. But in his conversations with Ford and Kissinger, which White House officials described as "reasonably successful," Rabin laid out some of his government's thoughts about making progress toward peace...
Many big cities are now making special efforts to deter rapists and to help their victims. The Los Angeles police department helped produce a widely distributed film, Lady Beware, that shows where rapists may lurk and teaches that women in danger should scream. In Washington, D.C., the police department has put out pamphlets for rape victims urging them to bring sex offenders to court. In New York City, St. Louis, Albuquerque and Chicago, special police rape squads brief victims on what to expect during medical examinations and how to file charges...