Word: deters
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...learned from Thomas Schelling's 1960 The Strategy of Conflict, a work he had come across at Stanford. He stabbed his wrists with broken glass, producing pools of blood that horrified his guards and made them end their interrogations. "I felt the only way I could really deter and stop the flow of questioning was to show a commitment to death," remembers Stockdale. "I don't think that I intended to die, but I intended to make them think that I was ready to die." That act earned him the Medal of Honor...
Thomas P. Bernstein '59, visiting associate professor of Government: It clearly played a significant role. I think the Chinese--and this was partly precipitated on our side--are asking for American military help. They do want us to deter what they see as the rising Soviet threat. In that sense, they expect us to do our part as the other superpower. China really is not in the same league militarily as either the Soviet Union or the U.S., and their latching on to us is really a reflection of that...
...thought he could solve most of them. Not singlehanded: he delighted in leading and managing people, all kinds of people. Again and again, he urged his rather narrowly based Republican Party to open its doors to every group. In this he had only limited success, but that did not deter him. He was driven by a mission to serve, improve and up lift his country...
GOVERNMENT REGULATION: I don't want to preside over a $10,000 Omni. But I don't see anything that's going to deter [the regulators] from making their appointed rounds. The way things are-and you don't have to be a mathematician to take $5,000 [roughly the present price of the Omni] and compound it for five years at 10% inflation rates and then add on all these goodies-it could be [a $10,000 car]. HIS GOALS: I really believe that if we can turn this company around, then I will have...
...evidence exists that longer prison terms or fixed mandatory sentences will deter crime, says Silberman. The real problem with the court system is not that it works badly but that it appears to work badly. Image is of no small importance. Making people believe that the law works ?and works fairly?is a better way to stop crime, says Silberman, than stuffing more criminals into already overcrowded jails. Bringing plea-bargaining negotiations out into the open, establishing formal sentencing guidelines, and simply treating victims and witnesses more decently would help restore respect for the law. Nevertheless, Silberman cautions...