Word: deterring
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...fight was far from ended. Advocates of public power accused the commission of holding up its decision until after Congress had adjourned. They also charged that Idaho Power rates are so high that they would deter new industry. Said Idaho's Democratic Congresswoman Grade Pfost: "There now can be no doubt that this Administration believes what is best for the power trust is best for the people." Growled Oregon's Democratic Senator Wayne Morse: "The Hell's Canyon decision will prove to be the Dixon-Yates deal of the Northwest...
...Blind River has not let Hirshhorn's proposition deter it from the more immediate business of making a fast boomtown buck. The town council turned down a plan for a general tax reassessment to provide revenue for urgently needed public improvements; all the improving underway is motivated by the familiar old law of supply and demand. Two of the town's hotels have built or are planning to build more bedrooms. Menard's department store, whose basement is given over to the only undertaking establishment in town, has prospered enough to plan a separate $30,000 funeral...
...engaged in a frontier struggle with the Japanese. Zhukov applied classic cavalry tactics to armored warfare: he massed his tanks, smashed a hole through the center of the Japanese Sixth Army, and bloodily crushed its flanks between his fanning-out Panzers and advancing infantry. This little-known action helped deter the Japanese from attacking the Soviet rear in 1941, leaving Stalin free to bring his Siberian troops westward to the defense of Moscow...
...Until 1960, U.S. supremacy in strategic air power will continue to deter the Russians from risking all-out war. SAC's nuclear bombers, the British reason, are already in a position to cripple the Soviet Union, whereas the Red air force is still incapable of knocking...
...truster has long followed the policy that his grandfather, John D. Rockefeller Sr., laid down for philanthropic works: "Don't coddle; stimulate." At 32, Nelson went to President F. D. Roosevelt to persuade him of the need for economic and cultural development of Latin America in order to deter south-of-the-border flirtations with Naziism and fascism...