Word: deterring
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...limited number of electives and the experience of 17 straight months at the Business School may deter some people from attending the summer session, Nohl said. Under the regular MBA program, students spend the summer at jobs related to their education...
...asking to be tried by a judge alone, they would not face death. Speaking for a 6-2 majority, Justice Potter Stewart found the argument persuasive. "The inevitable effect," he wrote, "is, of course, to discourage assertion of the Fifth Amendment right not to plead guilty and to deter exercise of the Sixth Amendment right to demand a jury trial...
Palace. Not even massed charges by Cairo's formidable mounted police could deter them. In the end, they agreed to call off the riots only when the government promised to retry the negligent officers and pay more heed to such student demands as greater freedom for Egypt's heavily censored press...
...most hopeful aspect about the rash of public strikes is that they have injected new and sorely needed urgency into the search for solutions. Investigation proceeds in a wide range. Some suggestions have been heard that existing strike penalties are not severe enough to deter strikes and should be increased. Advocates of this position refer to the example of John L. Lewis' 1946 coal miners' walkout, in which a $700,000 fine, imposed by the U.S. Government, effectively throttled the strike...
American Response. Such drawbacks are unlikely to deter the Soviet Union from placing increasing emphasis on seapower. Moscow not only relishes the new global reach that Admiral Gorsh-kov's navy has finally brought it, but it also views as an ideal opportunity the chance to capitalize on the U.S.'s preoccupation with Viet Nam and Britain's hasty withdrawal from East of Suez, seeking to impose its own presence where Western influence is diminishing...