Word: deters
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...affluent is now harder. The ongoing ravages of inflation have cut off 4.2% from the purchasing power of the average paycheck in the past year. Says Chicago's Leo Shapiro, a consumer research expert: "There is real resistance to spending out there. People are entering the Christmas season deter mined to spend less than they did last year. They have more expenses, less cash; and they are resolved to keep more in their pockets...
...that didn't deter droves from watching the men compete in a profoundly boring meet. The spectators paid their money, watched the meet, then left in a great exodus before the really exciting meet of the day began at 4 p.m. when the women's team swam the University of Maine...
Nathan Glazer, professor of education and social structure, predicted that renewed discussion of the hostage crisis should deter a Carter win because it reminds people of "the most humiliating period in American history...
David P. Phillips '64, associate professor of sociology at the University of California-San Diego, said Thursday his research indicates that public executions deter killers for two weeks. Afterwards, the homicide rate begins to rise again...
However, Phillips said the most plausible explanation for his results is that "public executions temporarily deter homicides which then reappear after the lesson of the execution fades from memory...