Word: deters
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Fisher himself admits that the chances of a single message to a government official producing a substantive policy change is small. But this does not deter him. "Some people say, 'But that idea will never work,'" he says. "I'm an optimist. If I have one chance in 100 of changing history, that's good odds...
...deter a mounting stream of commercial vehicles and sightseers heading toward the hardest hit areas. Dukakis ordered a crackdown on unauthorized vehicles, including penalties of up to $500 or a year in jail...
Yale's Varsity football coach Albert P. Bruno said yesterday, "The only thing we're concerned with right now is the football game." He added, "We have no feelings about the strike. It'd be a shame if it did anything to deter from a traditional game like this...
...triad"--a triple-faceted defense system consisting of nuclear bombers, submarines and land-based missiles--may be targeted as either "counter-value" or "counter-force." Counter-value weapons are targeted for Soviet cities in the belief that guaranteeing the destruction of Soviet society after a Soviet first-strike would deter that attack in the first place. Counter-force weapons, on the other hand, are aimed at Soviet missile and military installations. These weapons traditionally have been viewed as aggressive and possessing less deterrent value; the argument holds that it does little good to use counter-force weapons in a defensive...
Walzer said he did not believe the death penalty would deter potential terrorists...