Word: deterring
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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AUTO-LOCK Now that every teenager has one, Motorola is looking into a new market for its pagers: cars. Its CreataLink Control Module ($100 plus installation) lets owners remotely lock their cars, disable the engine and flash the headlights to deter thieves...
Kalra said the cost of the plane trip and the long hours that many have to spend in the air to reach their homes deter some from spending the holidays with family and friends...
NATO, Shelton said, has transformed from a military alliance designed to respond to crisis into a political alliance designed to "Deter crisis before they escalate...
...could be considered "a person" under child-abuse laws and that a pregnant woman carrying it could be charged with doing harm, even with murder. Similar arguments were earlier rejected by five other state supreme courts and a handful of lower courts across the country, but that did not deter Condon, a Republican rising star whose career has been stoked by such battles. Says he: "This decision is much more in line with American culture. A fetus has inalienable rights that come from God. That is how most Americans feel about this...
What originally seemed like jaywalking to this unsuspecting student, actually turned out to be a "bad error in judgment," which he said he hopes will deter other students from repeating his mistakes