Word: deterred
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...think it will deter people from going intobusiness, finance, and economically related fieldswho don't really have the intellectual ability tobenefit the fields," said Juan Betancourt '93."Therefore, in the long run there won't be so manypeople looking for a job in these fields,therefore starting incomes might rise...
...Chiefs of Staff; the two talk on a scrambled line at least once a day. Schwarzkopf refused to speculate about the possibility of a U.S. strike. "The forces we have on the ground have both defensive and offensive capabilities," he said, "but the only mission we have is to deter and to defend if attacked." Yet he agreed with the widespread view that merely a withdrawal of Iraqi forces from Kuwait would constitute "a small win for the U.S., a small win for Saddam Hussein and a big loss for the gulf. We don't want...
...Saudis are interested in lessening the rigors of justice. Even liberals tend to believe the country's methods deter crime better than those of the West. The prohibitions on drinking and other vices do not rankle much. Many simply get around them by leading double lives: pious in public, more freewheeling at home and on overseas forays. Bootleg liquor is easily available. The euphemism for home-brew whiskey is "brown," while gin is called "white"; at parties people will say, "I'll have some brown in a + Coke," or "I'll have some white in a Sprite...
Bush has repeatedly said he ordered American forces to Saudi Arabia only to deter Iraqi aggression and, if necessary, repel it. For defensive purposes, the military coordination at most levels seems workable. Schwarzkopf and the Saudi commander, Lieut. General Khalid bin Sultan, meet several times a day, as do their main deputies. U.S. ground troops have been assigned to a sector along the gulf and south of Kuwait, while 30,000 Saudi and Islamic troops are deployed west of U.S. positions and in the far north, a thin line between the Americans and the Iraqi and Kuwaiti borders. U.S., Saudi...
...moment, an uneasy equilibrium was reached. By most accounts, the U.S. had pumped sufficient firepower into Saudi Arabia to deter an Iraqi attack but not enough to retake Kuwait by force. The interim was giving both sides time to work out just what they were willing to fight or settle for. For the U.S., the choice was between defusing the immediate crisis -- either by waiting for the sanctions to work or by accepting some kind of a settlement -- or getting rid of the menace in Baghdad once and for all. For Saddam, the question was whether to retreat now with...