Word: deterred
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...brunt?for good or ill?of the outcome of these negotiations. This is especially important with respect to the American intermediate-range missiles in Europe. That deployment makes sense only if the allies genuinely believe that the prospect of a nuclear blow from Europe on Soviet territory will help deter a Soviet conventional attack or nuclear blackmail. If our principal allies do not share this conviction, the psychological basis for the deployment will evaporate...
Cambridge, like any city, offers more than enough dangers to an unsuspecting student. Police officers should deter these attacks, not add to them...
...Department of Education used threats of financial cutoffs as a last resort to deter discrimination, but no university has ever lost federal funds...
...superpowers has in absolute numbers weapons sufficient to destroy the other several times over strategists usually focus instead on the projected post strike balance. How much will be left in each side's arsenal after it has been attacked? Would that stockpile be sufficient to coerce of deter the other side's behavior? Emphasis on post strike balance implies for instance that the U.S. can secure deterrence only by maintaining an arsenal so large that even after a Soviet first strike enough U.S. forces would survive to launch a devastating retaliatory strike. The result has been the arms race; each...
There is, of course, no way to deter mine what kind of writer Anne Frank might have become. Child sacrifice is a tragedy beyond words, and it scarcely matters whether a genius or an ordinary citizen perished in the Holocaust. It is only certain that her final volume is a testimony to a green talent and a mature spirit. Each page refreshingly repeats the invaluable moral lesson of her diary: if it is implausible to bid farewell to anguish, it is impossible to close the book on hope . - By Stefan Kanfer