Word: undercutting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Liability to error is the lot of all human institutions. But this fact cannot be allowed to undercut their authority. In consequence every society provides systematic ways in which error can be corrected and injustice rectified without diminishing the authority of the agency at fault. In the truly liberal state these established procedures are effective, readily available, and constantly improved. There is nothing especially liberal about a state whose agencies are ineffective. Except in the manner prescribed by law, individual complaints against the competence of judgment and action authorized by law cannot be allowed as arguments against authority...
...checks and balances, provisions for appeal, review and redress, etc. The same end could not be brought about by making the authority of any agency conditional on the faith the citizen has in it. Similarly, the remedy for the miscarriage of justice is not a principle which would undercut the implementation of justice altogether in making the defendant the judge of the competence of the court. Rather, it is a revision of the procedures of trial and investigation in which miscarriages of justice occur, and the institution and improvements of methods of appeal, review, and redress. Witch trials and kangaroo...
...subject matter, from divinities to profanities. They were made to sell as souvenirs to pilgrims at the temple steps. The art first came into being when British colonists brought cheap paper and the technique of painting with transparent watercolor to Calcutta. It died when machine-printed cards and chromos undercut sales...
...Seattle last December, Army district engineers opened bids on contracts for generators and transformers for the Chief Joseph Dam on the Columbia River near Bridgeport, Wash. A $6,238,373 bid by Britain's English Electric Co. Ltd. undercut closest American competition by $931,788, or 13%. But the Buy American Act of 1933 requires federal purchase of U.S.-made goods unless the U.S. price is more than 25% higher than an import...
...many useful social functions which the state government performs. Further I will do all that I can to help textile companies and textile unions agree on a basis for remaining in Massachusetts rather than hindering them. I will also encourage labor standards in other states which will not undercut Massachusetts industry with sweatshop conditions...