Word: deterring
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...unregulated, Hong Kong-like environment free of import taxes, businessmen would be able to enter without visas, taxes would be low, and red tape minimal. In the eyes of Taiwan's rivals, the plan has one crucial draw back: Taipei's hostile relationship with Peking could deter Hong Kong Chinese investors...
...what otherwise might be decisive advantages. Precisely because it has been so unrestrained in beefing up its military might and throwing its weight around the world, the Soviet Union has provoked countermeasures by the West that will further complicate the U.S.S.R.'s defense planning as well as help deter it from possible aggression...
...Soviet-American handholding. At the outset of the cold war in the late '40s, U.S. policy turned once again toward quarantine-or containment-of Soviet power. That power seemed so predatory and implacable that the Western democracies believed their only hope was to band together and deter further Soviet expansionism. The idea of actively coaxing the U.S.S.R. toward a more humane social order seemed out of the question. The author of the containment doctrine, George Kennan, held out the dim hope that if the Soviet aggressive drive were held in check, perhaps the regime might mellow. But that would...
Sunday's events are over, and we can only hope that Laura Wharton's letter did not deter those people whom we very much wanted to attend--namely, those Jews concerned with Israel and able to bring a love for that country to the discussion--from coming to the first part of "Common Ground." The conference continues this evening, and we hope that everyone truly interested in educating themselves and airing their opinions on the issues will attend the panel discussion tonight in the Science Center. The Middle East Education Project (MEEP) Steve Epstein '83 Jack Rebinovitz '83 Tracy Sivitz...
...doctrine, he wrote: "Were NATO to forgo the possibility of a nuclear response to armed aggression, the Warsaw Pact might conclude that the risks of conventional attack against Western Europe were acceptable." National Security Adviser William Clark also wrote a detailed response to the first draft. Said he: "To deter effectively, we must make it clear to the Soviet leadership that we have the capability to, and will, respond to aggression...