Word: deterring
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...matter what kind of ABM deterrent system a country may install, it will not deter an enemy bent on using nuclear weapons. All the belligerent nation need do is deposit nuclear explosives underwater off the coast of the target country, wait until the winds are just right, and detonate the weapon. The fallout will inflict the damage...
...even religious prohibitions deter women from using birth-control devices when they have access to them. According to Princeton's Dr. Charles Westoff, a nationwide survey shows that 53% of married Catholic women aged 18 to 39 use contraceptives in defiance of church doctrine. In eleven years, he told the Notre Dame Conference on Population last week, the number rose...
...alert was too late to reduce most factory fumes and did little to deter motorists from flocking to the city for the traditional post-Thanksgiving buying splurge. The break finally came, not because of the alert measures, but from evening showers that washed the dirty air. By week's end the inversion layer was breaking up as the westerly wind returned to sweep clean the skies...
Ruyle is still seeking students who have computer problems that might be able to aid in the project's investigations. He said, however, "to deter anyone who might want to fool around for an hour just for kicks before a Bogie flick, that students who use Tact's facilities will have to write up a critical analysis of their experience with the equipment." He also said that by the Spring most of the computer's time will be taken up by the two new courses...
...Federal and local correctional facilities -- how to insure that they prepare the offender for a more constructive life once he returns to society, rather than merely punishing him in order to deter others from the same course...