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Ford has been trying to counter Reagan's claims with variations of a basic theme: "We are absolutely unsurpassed in military capability, and we [have the power] to deter aggression, to maintain the peace, and to protect our national security." As Reagan pressed his charges, Ford began taking some well-publicized steps aimed at proving that he would spare no expense to keep the U.S. that way. As a bemedaled American officer put it: "There's no question that the more Reagan sticks it to him, the more dollars we're going to see." Items...
...forced to drive to the session guarded by a six-truck convoy of troops; other Deputies were escorted by gunmen from their own local militias. The Mediterranean villa that serves as a temporary Parliament itself came under heavy fire-though no one was hurt. Still, the fighting failed to deter a quorum of 69 out of 98 members of Parliament from convening. While mortars exploded all around, Sarkis, 51, who is governor of Lebanon's Central Bank, won the presidency on the second ballot, after having failed to get the requisite two-thirds majority on the first ballot...
Kodak at first regarded Land's invention as a toy whose high price ($88 initially) and complexity would deter the average snapshooter. But the camera sold well. In the 1960s, when Polaroid's prices dropped dramatically (as little as $20 for a Swinger), Kodak began cracking on its own process. Says David Eisendrath, a photo consultant for TIME and Modern Photography: "Kodak finally realized what Polaroid knew from the start-that there are people who want to take good pictures, and other people who want to see them as fast as possible. The latter group is much larger...
...suggesting to the authors "that legislation prescribing mandatory capital punishment for premeditated or felony-murder would not be mandatory in effect." Supporters of mandatory executions answer that the new capital punishment laws do as well as is humanly and systemically possible and that the death penalty is necessary to deter violent crime...
...Robinson Rojas Sanford makes clear in The Murder of Allende, the weakness of Allende's political power was trivial compared to the threat of military rebellion. The Chilean armed forces, whose function until then had been to deter an unlikely Peruvian invasion and to suppress internal dissent, clearly held veto power over the Popular Unity government. But Allende, though imprisoned by these restrictions, refused to acknowledge them, speaking as though socialism had taken hold in Chile. His temerity and the myth of an apolitical armed forces made the coup a great surprise to those who had believed...