Word: deterred
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...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...
...many nuclear bombs does it take to deter a Soviet nuclear attack? One U.S. Poseidon submarine carries 16 missiles. Each missile carries ten separate warheads; each warhead has about twice the destructive capability of the atomic weapon which destroyed Hiroshima. So one American submarine can destroy 160 Soviet cities, a threat which is surely sufficient to deter a Soviet leader with any shred of rationality...
Since the December massacre at Rome's airport at Fiumicino, in which 31 people were killed by Palestinian terrorists, the new strategy is to deter such attacks with massive shows of force. But even security men admit that such demonstrations are not totally effective. Terrorists travel around Europe as easily as tourists nowadays, and they have already shown that they can obtain missiles. Raiding an apartment at Ostia near Fiumicino last September, Italian secret service agents discovered two 4½-ft. Strelas, whose heat-seeking warhead can knock down a low-flying jet up to two miles away...