Word: deterring
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...after dark; a ban against drinking in public followed in 1983. A police task force set up to combat street crime has racked up 1,255 arrests for sleeping and camping violations in the past two years. While attempts to prohibit the eating of garbage have failed, some grocers deter hungry vagrants by sprinkling bleach on discarded food. Santa Barbara County election officials had been denying voting rights to people who did not have an address; three months ago, a state appeals court struck down the practice...
While Harvard has revived its 1960s-era disciplinary board, the Committee on Rights and Responsibilities, SASC members say they plan many activities that are not punishable and that the threat of punishment will not deter them...
...should not have been intentionally excluded from the judge-selected Kings County grand jury, it was "a harmless error." But Justice Marshall responded for the majority that overturning the conviction was "the only effective remedy for this violation" and was "not disproportionate to the evil that it seeks to deter...
Except for a sudden dash across the sky by Halley's comet--which appears about as often as the Patriots do in the Super Bowl--not much is going to deter 90 million Americans from watching the big game this Sunday...
...effort to deter illegal voting, Cambridge residents will be asked to show some form of identification before entering polling booths across the city today, the election commission announced last week...