Word: deterring
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...TIME/CNN poll this month reports that 37% of Americans see workplace violence as a growing problem. Some 18% have witnessed assaults at work; another 18% worry about becoming victims themselves. Those fears help explain why two-thirds of emergency-room nurses turn their name tags upside down to deter patients from learning their identities, why some supervisors have taken to wearing bulletproof vests, and why the owner of a McDonald's in central St. Louis forbids his 120 employees to wear red or blue, the colors of the local Crips and Bloods gangs...
This case has been made here before. Yet the staff, from the unique vantage of their armchairs, take the recent failure of NATO air strikes to deter the Serbs form overrunning Gorazde as a sign that more intervention is needed, not less. Rather than follow this recipe for disaster, US forces ought to pull out of the region while they...
Perhaps realizing the obligation it has to the city and its people, NATO has engaged in several minor airstrikes in an attempt to deter the Serbs form taking the city. These apparently have failed. Rather than being cowed, the Serbs have stepped up the offensive...
...news of the tiger kill spread through nearby villages, informants quickly led police to Raju. Mahadeswara hid but was arrested two months later. While Indian justice guarantees neither swift nor sure punishment, tiger specialist Ullas Karanth believes the shame and inconvenience of interminable court proceedings deter villagers, who lack the resources of wildlife traders. Raju says he regrets what he did and hopes to assist with antipoaching patrols...
...Jewett also said there are some threats administrators ought to make. For instance, Jewett said administrators might threaten disciplinary action deter students from breaking the alcohol policy...