Word: deters
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...making plans behind the scenes. A legal adviser of the Israeli Foreign Ministry flew to Oslo as part of an attempt to gain release of the captured agents. Even though Norway has very friendly relations with Israel, it may be inclined to punish the agents severely in order to deter further terrorism. The murder was obviously an error, but that is small solace for Ahmed Bouchiki and other innocents who are bound to suffer in the worldwide underground warfare between the Israelis and the Arabs...
...Robinson ("Mother of Mercy, is this the end of Rico?") and did smashingly well at the box-office. In 1931, Public Enemy followed suit with James Cagney as Tom Powers, a punk kid who becomes a tough-guy criminal. These movies were stories about gangsters' lives. They professed to deter crime by warning the public about violence in the streets, but managed instead to glamourize the gangster as a rebel hero. It was because of the brilliant acting of the likes of Robinson and Cagney, who gave their hoodlums dignity and poignance, that we believed in these gangsters as real...
...poor view does not deter the crowds. For there is a magnetic attraction about the investigation that draws people back time and time again to witness the controlled violence of the Watergate hearings...
...objective of the Mururoa tests, that the aim is simply to develop sufficient weapons to provide a taux d'ennui (nuisance tax). If France could knock out just a couple of major cities in any attacking nation, this reasoning goes, that would be enough to deter a bigger power from trying to knock out all of France...
...report the crime; the caller is simply briefed on what to expect during police interrogations and during physical examinations at hospitals or by private doctors. If she decides to go to the police, the center will send a sympathetic volunteer with her to give emotional support and to deter male officers from taking a voyeuristic interest in details or implying that the victim provoked the crime. Explains one Baltimore feminist: "The woman who files a complaint is sometimes herself treated as a criminal...