Word: deterring
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...five Harvard boats emerged victorious, with the first boat beating Navy's top entry by twelve seconds. Wind conditions forced the crews to adopt a floating start, but the altered course didn't deter the Crimson. Harvard led the race wire-to-wire as the Midshipmen were lost in the water...
...authorities deny the right of national self-determination and thus provoke secessionist explosions across the country. Or Russian nationalists could deliberately stimulate secessionism. But history could help us avert such a disaster. We experienced civil war at the beginning of this century. Perhaps the vividness of that memory will deter us from repeating the same mistake at the end of this century...
Because discrimination extends beyond economics into the sphere of social and cultural life, offering solutions to the problem can prove difficult for the labor economist. The complexity of the issue may even deter scholars from tackling problems of gender on the policy level...
When the Southern Christian Leadership Conference failed to persuade the Dallas city council to stop opposing a plan for increased minority representation, the local chapter resorted to tougher methods: it mounted a boycott last week to deter tourists and conventions from coming to the city. The strategy, though hardly new, is gaining in popularity. Increasingly, national groups and associations have sought to punish and pressure cities by moving their conventions and meetings elsewhere...
...point. Punitive damages are intended as a form of quasi-criminal retribution against wrongdoers in civil cases. They exist to deter future misdeeds. "Punitive damages are not intended to compensate the victim," says Edward Cooper, a professor at the University of Michigan law school. "Instead, they are meant to punish especially bad conduct." Such judgments are most often awarded in product-liability and personal-injury cases...