Word: deterring
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...bleeding heart of downtown, near a city power works and a Chrysler assembly plant, Victoria Park offers serene, curving streets and handsome colonial- and Cape Cod-style homes. The incongruous setting did not deter builders from snapping up city-owned lots for a dollar apiece, then designing gracious homes with porch decks, two-car garages and cathedral ceilings. Buyers, unfazed by the city's mean reputation, grabbed 70 of the 86 available houses, for prices that were typically 25% less than comparable homes in the suburbs. Among the first new owners: a Desert Storm nurse, a church minister...
...want to be involved," he says. His line is that since the newly constituted rump Yugoslavia has ordered its army out of Bosnia and turned the fight over to ethnic Serbs there, it is no longer Serbia's problem. But discouraged diplomats warn that nothing is likely to deter Milosevic from his goal of Greater Serbia. Says a U.S. analyst: "Where we're interested in peace, he wants...
...struggle. The country might have split into the United States and the Confederate States; slavery might have survived a long time. Some think seeing executions on television would so repel the public that it would abolish capital punishment. Some believe showing such vivid evidence of the punishment would deter people from committing the crimes. Perhaps. Or would televised executions become something like what they were once -- grisly popular entertainments...
Students with a financial stake in the MAC would no longer tolerate the incompetence of its current management. A $25 investment might concentrate responsibility and ownership enough to deter would-be thieves and abusers...
Duehay, along with Councillor Sheila T. Russell, said the restriction on parking would deter citizens and visitors from patronizing Cambridge businesses...