Word: deterring
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When Thomas Jefferson, an an amateur scientist himself, wrote the nation's first patent law in 1793, he was deter mined to ensure that "ingenuity should receive a liberal encouragement." Under his law, "any new and useful art, machine, manufacture or composition of matter" was patentable and thus legally shielded from theft. Last week, in a 5-to-4 decision, the Supreme Court applied the Jeffersonian measure to one of the latest examples of human ingenuity. It ruled that new forms of life created in the laboratory could be patented...
...have been invested without patent protection. Says Bernard Talbot, special assistant to the director of the National Institutes of Health: "Recombinant DNA work is going on in numerous labs. This would have gone on whatever the court decided." Chief Justice Burger himself acknowledged that a patent law "will not deter the scientific mind from probing into the unknown any more than Canute could command the tides...
...strategic nuclear forces must provide a strong and credible deterrent . . . Our conventional forces must be strong enough to deter aggression . . . We believe we can reduce present defense spending by about $5 billion to $7 billion...
...embassy refugees with the understanding that the Immigration and Naturalization Service could screen them before allowing them into the U.S. Suddenly thousands were landing illegally in Florida with no entry visas in hand. Washington first implored boat-owners not to head for Mariel. When that failed to deter the flotilla, the Government hinted it might accept only the first 3,500, whether embassy refugees or not, and deport the rest. The threat was correctly seen as an empty one since the U.S. has routinely granted asylum to Cuban refugees since Castro came to power...
...people plea for help. Said Mrs. Rosen: "We are not asking for diplomatic or economic sanctions. Everyone is talking hostage, hostage, hostage. But they are people. We are trying to get back to the human factor." The women hoped, said Mrs. Kennedy, that the botched rescue attempt would "not deter America's allies from continuing to support the U.S. in its actions against Iran." At week's end, they carried that message to Luxembourg, where the leaders of the European Community met to consider further joint action on the long-running crisis in Tehran...