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...objective of the Mururoa tests, that the aim is simply to develop sufficient weapons to provide a taux d'ennui (nuisance tax). If France could knock out just a couple of major cities in any attacking nation, this reasoning goes, that would be enough to deter a bigger power from trying to knock out all of France...
...report the crime; the caller is simply briefed on what to expect during police interrogations and during physical examinations at hospitals or by private doctors. If she decides to go to the police, the center will send a sympathetic volunteer with her to give emotional support and to deter male officers from taking a voyeuristic interest in details or implying that the victim provoked the crime. Explains one Baltimore feminist: "The woman who files a complaint is sometimes herself treated as a criminal...
Extracting the wealth of Siberia is a matter not just of money and machinery, of course, but also of people, and the cruelty of life in the Arctic area is enough to deter many. Siberia boosters used to claim that the population would climb from its present 25 million to about 60 million by the year 2000; the current rate of growth is unlikely to produce more than about half that number. All Siberian workers, from a waitress in Yakutsk to a drilling engineer at Nadym, get "northern bonuses" that double and triple Moscow wage rates, but the labor turnover...
Such criticism is not likely to deter the Teamsters. After years of being shunned as the pariah of organized labor, the Teamsters have nourished an ardent romance with the Nixon Administration that has given them a new measure of respectability and influence. An unbridled push for expansion has brought the union more than 2,000,000 members, making it the largest in the non-Communist world. What worries Meany and other labor leaders is that much of the Teamsters' growing strength is coming from raids on AFL-CIO unions...
Castaneda's penchant for privacy did not deter Correspondent Sandra Burton from unraveling some of the mysteries about the author. Burton met her subject repeatedly-at U.C.L.A.'s anthropology department, over dinner at a Japanese restaurant and at a "power spot" in the rugged canyons north of Los Angeles...