Word: deterring
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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France wants an independent nuclear arsenal, Alphand said, "to deter a potential enemy, in case he decides to blackmail us in exceptional cases when our interests and your should not be exactly the same." He suggested that the French nuclear venture "cannot but interfere with the strategy of our adversaries, and therefore make it more complicated for them...
...until she stopped preaching." After all, said Reitemeyer, nothing like that could happen in Connecticut, where "you just can't be railroaded" into a mental institution. Reitemeyer was also concerned about the effect on readers: "It would disturb people with relations in mental institutions, and it might even deter some who need treatment from going into an institution...
...American Humane Association's Vincent De Francis thus questions the idea of reporting to the police. "This means viewing the case in terms of possible prosecution of the parent," says De Francis. But parental guilt is often impossible to prove, and the very threat of punishment may deter parents from getting medical help. As Mrs. DeHinger puts it: "The Children's Bureau does not want to put brutal parents in jail so much as to save the child...
Ultranationalists in Brazil last week sought to block M. A. Hanna's plans to mid a $25 million iron ore port, even though the government seemed deter mined to approve the deal, and the Supreme Court will rule soon on whether any foreign company has a right to mine in Brazil. In Australia, where U.S companies are investing at the rate of $4,000,000 a week, the government is under mounting pressure to require part local ownership of foreign subsidiaries At a special luncheon in Paris, the creme de la creme of France's business leaders listened...
...explained that the NVS dispatches trained students, primarily from the University of Saigon, to rural hamlets. There they organize agricultural, educational, and social activities, thus developing a "community spirit" which may deter Communist infiltration...