Word: deterring
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...need guns? What purpose do they have in society except to encourage murder and mayhem? Why shouldn't guns be banned? Anyone caught using a gun while committing a crime should be put behind bars for the rest of his or her life. If this punishment won't deter crime, I don't know what will. KANCHAN K. LALL Wallingford, Pennsylvania...
...perhaps the best thing about following sports at Harvard is how it expands your horizons. I do have to admit that after being forced to watch several playoff games, I was impressed by Yankee manager Joe Torre and the athletic skills of Bernie Williams and Joe Deter. I would never have watched the Kansas City Chiefs/Detroit Lions game on Thanksgiving if a girl in my dorm didn't live in Kansas and wasn't always talking about the mighty Chiefs. Though I still have to draw the line at rooting for the Oakland Raiders, the Dallas Cowboys and the Yankees...
Irate activists didn't seem to deter drivers yesterday...
...hope that [the Administrative Board] would do something so it would deter future forgery," said George C. Nierlich, president of the Law School Council...
Maxine Hong Kingston was coming to Harvard. Posters were up everywhere heralding her arrival, and word of mouth carried her name across the campus. On the night of the event, drenching rain could not deter the hundreds of students and faculty members who crowded into Science Center B, dripping umbrellas in one hand and copies of Kingston's various books (e.g. The Woman Warrior, China Men, Tripmaster Monkey) in the other...