Word: deterred
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Faced with the hardships brought on by the four-year-old U.N. sanctions against their country, Iraqis have increasingly turned to crime, according to Iraqi sources. Last June, President Saddam Hussein's government responded with a series of decrees designed to deter crime; Iraqi officials justify the mutilations as warranted under Shari`a, or Islamic...
...even if Krueger's right and no one's fired,'' says University of Texas economist Daniel Hamermesh, ``a raise will deter employers from hiring new workers. That's bad especially for young minorities--over 30% of whom are unemployed--because they're the people we want in the labor force, so they can begin learning basic job skills...
HEALTH: Search for a Pill to Deter Aging...
...uneasy with this. There should be a more democratic process to determine the choosing of exhibits. While Fisher and A-Raki may very well be competent in this area, why should their aesthetic judgements be inflicted upon the community, especially given the Dudley House population? What's to deter future conservative, authority figures from even more chilling decisions, say the decision to show only Norman Rockwell prints during a particular year...
...emergency concerns not just NATO but also the U.N. and other instruments through which the U.S. and the West's other powers have sought to enforce peace and deter aggression. In practice, if the "international community" means anything, it denotes the U.S. in tandem with Britain and France. Russia must be consulted, Germany and Japan write occasional checks, and China's nonobstruction is sometimes needed; but Washington, London and Paris are the governments that count...