Word: undercut
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...expressed his support of Taiwan during his presidential campaign and pledged, if elected, to upgrade U.S. relations with Taipei. During his visit to Peking, Haig sought to reassure the Chinese leadership that the U.S. had not in fact changed its position. Even before Haig had left Peking, President Reagan undercut him by telling a press conference: "I have not changed my feelings about Taiwan." The Chinese were upset enough to collar Haig at the airport, minutes before his scheduled departure, and upbraid him for the President's remarks. Since then, the attacks on Washington's Taiwan policy have...
...shortcomings of the stage. More important, however, is the Chorus' role, not as the playwright's mouthpiece, but as the 16th-century public's general view of Henry. This popular consensus is far from identical with the man Shakespeare drew in the play proper, and the difference is undercut by having Henry describe himself. In fact, it would be so embarrassing for Henry to deliver the Fifth Chorus that Coe omits this speech entirely! In 1956 Plummer had another actor to undertake the Chorus, as should be true of any production of this play. The difficulty is that there...
...smoke marijuana for the same purpose, or mix their C with heroin in a process called "speedballing" or "boy-girl." This produces a tug-of-war in which the exhilaration of coke is undercut by the heroin. As one former user describes the sensation, "It's like taking an elevator at 100 m.p.h. to the top of the Empire State Building and then someone cuts the cable." A few middle class users who dabble with heroin in conjunction with cocaine smoke it rather than inject it in their veins like the ghetto kid. This, they believe, prevents addiction...
...promotion follows another. Says Chief Economist Daniel Kaplan of the Civil Aeronautics Board: "If you see a market where you say, 'My God, that fare is awfully high,' you can be sure that someone else has noticed and is trying to figure out if he can undercut it." While it lasts, the airline price war should continue to give passengers a bargain a minute...
Hudson plans to undercut NASA and open up the market by charging a maximum of $5 million to launch a low-orbit satellite that could be used to search for oil, gas or mineral deposits. For stationary communications orbits 22,300 miles up, Space Services Inc. will charge an estimated $15 million...