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...explained that the NVS dispatches trained students, primarily from the University of Saigon, to rural hamlets. There they organize agricultural, educational, and social activities, thus developing a "community spirit" which may deter Communist infiltration...
...York City may soon be able to deter potential delinquents before they commit their first crimes, aided by a table developed by Sheldon Glueck, Roscoe Pound Professor of Law, Emeritus, and his wife, Mrs. Eleanor Glueck...
Curtis' directors tried to paper over the whole messy business with a plaintive announcement that "policy differences" would not deter them from "proceeding vigorously with plans which have been under consideration for strengthening the company's operations." But President Joe Culligan was still to be heard from. With the powerful support of Boston Banker Serge Semenenko, who put together the consortium of banks that saved Curtis last year, Culligan ripped the whole thing wide open again as he lashed back at his foes. Blair and Kantor, he decreed, were henceforth "relieved from all duties" and "placed on inactive...
...running for honors. And even if dangling a carrot were a respectable means of encouraging scholarly achievement, what the English Department is dangling looks more like the Sword of Damocles. Rather than encouraging the sophomore to try harder, the English Department's requirements are more likely to deter him from taking any difficult couses...
...major concern of ours has been the preparedness of this nation, the ability of this nation to defend itself to deter war - the ability of its soldiers, sail ors and airmen to protect themselves without being straitjacketed or stripped of weapons...