Word: deterred
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Practically speaking, the bill makes little sense. Not only are violent crime rates in Massachusetts much lower than in those states which enforce the death penalty, but they have been declining rapidly in recent years. Thus capital punishment isn't necessary to deter crime, as Cellucci claims. The solution to lowering crime rates is to stop crimes before they are committed--through a well-trained and well-equipped police force--rather than execute those already convicted. To put it bluntly, the Commonwealth is doing fine without the death penalty...
Some may call her foolish, Solano says, but shedoesn't want a police visit to deter customersfrom browsing...
...when they were last logged on. Many also know that you can type "nofinger" at the prompt to disable this information, and many have decided to do so. What many people don't know (but your average CS50 graduate can tell you) is that this does nothing to deter someone who wishes to know where you last logged on. The command "last " will list without complaint the whereabouts of any student who regularly checks e-mail from a terminal in the past week. The command "finger | grep " (or, "who | grep " will supply the data that "nofinger" is supposed to disable...
...political turmoil that has accompanied Anwar's arrest will further deter foreign investors. The opposition leader returns to court Monday to face new charges of sexual misconduct, while police are also considering sedition charges against his wife, Wan Azizah, who has begun to take the reins of the fledgling opposition movement. Mahathir won't find it quite as easy, however, to deal with the dissent of the world market...
...confidential and he would have "preferred" it that way; MacDonald said the same through a spokesman. But that did not stop MacDonald from announcing his expanded role in his Sunday sermon and Campolo from posting a statement on the Internet after a reporter called with questions. Nor did it deter the White House from confirming the information, although communications director Ann Lewis insists "my direction was that the pastoral counseling was private and personal and that we were not to release information." Wogaman gave only a short statement extolling the privacy of pastoral relationships...