Word: deterring
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...enmity was one of the reasons why Pakistan, earlier this month, turned down a proposed $400 million U.S. aid package. Pakistani officials complained that the $200 million in military credits offered by the U.S. in the overall package was worse than nothing, since it would be totally insufficient to deter a Soviet threat. "What do I buy with $200 million?" asked Pakistani Strongman General Mohammed Zia ul-Haq. "The hostility of the Soviet Union, and that does not suit me." He later hinted that he might soon visit Moscow to shore up relations...
William R. Fitzsimmons '67, director of admissions, said yesterday he believes the rise from $8140 to $9170 total costs will not deter prospective members of the Class of '84 from accepting their offers of admission. His office will accept no more applicants than previously planned, he added...
...their immediate application as well as after effects that they threatened not only the victim of aggression but all humanity, the aggressor included; (2) that no defense was possible against them; and (3) that, for both these reasons, they could have no conceivable political or military utility--except to deter otheres also armed with them. These assumptions, still widely held a third of a century after Hiroshima and Nagasaki, underpin our approach to SALT and explain the critical importance which we attach to it both in our defense planning and in our relations with the Soviet Union...
Reactivation of draft registration is obviously essential and it may well be necessary to call up registrants for fundamental training (as was done in 1940) if we are not to find our reserve components so short of qualified personnel that our military capacity will no longer effectively deter Russian aggression...
...designed to expand knowledge without concern for the immediate usefulness of the new information, shows foresight. Today's scientists work on projects that might last ten years. They collaborate with other workers to share the use and cost of the sophisticated and expensive equipment essential for advanced studies. To deter the obsolescence of such equipment, Carter innovately calls for "centralized equipment" available on a regional basis to several groups of workers, and offers special funds for this purpose...