Word: deterring
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...most remarkable fact about consumer buying is that nothing seems to deter it. During both the recession and the steel strike, consumers held to their buying pace, thus bolstered the economy in a key area just when it needed support. Now, though personal income has leveled off, the consumer is still stepping up his spending...
...these criticisms missed the essential point that deterrent power will deter only to the extent that the enemy is convinced of the U.S.'s willingness to use it -and the willingness would be a lot plainer if the nation's citizens had the protection of fallout shelters. Said the task force: "The physical ability of families to survive even the most terrifying nuclear attack is, in the ultimate reckoning, a fact of crucial importance to our national security. The will to survive, coupled with the ability to do so, ranks next to military power in the nuclear...
WASHINGTON, April 5--The strategic air force commander says the United States may lose the strength to deter the Soviet Union from war unless it boosts production of planes and missiles...
...Minuteman is still in the primary stages, is by no means the sure gap-closer for 1964 that Administration estimates indicate. The point: the Administration ought not to bet so heavily in strategic doctrine upon a weapon still in its infancy. And the U.S. deterrent to war will not deter unless it is backed up by enough protected missiles to strike the retaliatory blow...
...second place, he continued, these pledges do little to deter real transgressors, offering them instead "a convenient cloak. Thirdly, "it is our conviction that belief cannot be coerced or compelled," he went...