Word: deterring
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...remove six police posts that remain on Kuwaiti soil. The diplomatic community is not very hopeful that Bush's air strike will have much influence on the situation. "I don't think it will cause Saddam much pain," noted a Western envoy in Kuwait. "And I doubt it will deter him. He has a long history of miscalculations." Adds a Kuwaiti businessman: "We are behind the U.S. action, but we believe that Saddam will continue to defy...
...about the same as France), we'd raise $20 billion a year. Anyone who didn't want to pay could switch to one of the cheaper "generic" brands (only 13% have so far) and save much of the tax that way; smoke less; or quit. Side benefits: high prices deter kids from becoming smokers; the more people who quit, the better their health and the lower America's health-care costs...
Richmond said he does not expect the stamps torise in value because too many are being printed.But he said that this should not deter people whoenjoy collecting stamps from buying them...
...predicted that Hill's brave performance would both embolden other women to come forward with grievances and promote greater sensitivity in the workplace. The other camp warned that the spectacle of 14 white male Senators grilling a young black woman with sometimes rude, often embarrassing, rarely knowledgeable questions would deter other women from lodging harassment complaints. Pointing to polls that showed that almost twice as many people believed Thomas as Hill, some warned that women would draw a discouraging conclusion: no matter how insulting the behavior, they would find it hard to get a fair hearing...
...numbers by 2050, to nearly 11 billion, humanity may complete the devastation that accelerated so steeply in this century. Such unabated expansion in our numbers would continue to soak up the world's capital and prevent the poorer nations from making the necessary investments in technological development that might deter continued population growth...