Word: deterring
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Joseph S. Nye--was designed primarily to ensure the rights of speakers invited to Harvard while maintaining the audience's right to dissent. It was prompted by two 1987 speaking events in which speakers were shouted down by hostile audience members. University officials had feared that the incidents would deter others from coming to Harvard...
...Libya, even Korea and Viet Nam were all essentially sideshows. The Big One, if it ever came, would begin with the Warsaw Pact's tank and armored columns charging across the Fulda Gap into West Germany, starting a conflict that could escalate to a nuclear Armageddon. The effort to deter or defeat a Soviet invasion of Western Europe shaped almost everything about the U.S. military establishment: manpower requirements, weapons design, budget requests, the works...
...should push for a policy of minimal deterrence. In the past ten years, the number of Soviet sites designated for nuclear destruction has grown to more than 20,000, including hundreds of bunkers and communications centers. The superpowers should evolve toward far smaller arsenals, designed merely to survive -- and deter -- a surprise attack with the capacity to retaliate...
Gonzalez said reports by the Nicarauguan media of election-related violence last year were also exaggerated. Accusing the country's three major newpapers of inflating death toll figures, the OAS adviser said the stories deter the peaceful election process and called for regulation of the press...
...that sign would be useless without a commitment to enforcement. The police should continue to deter would-be offenders with the prospect of arrest. Eventually, these men will learn that the Science Center is no longer a good place to pick-up, in much the same way they first learned that it was a good place...