Word: undercutting
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...attacks them from the side. Thus Marcos has adopted a strangely non-confrontational approach to the Moslem insurgency movement in the southern Philippines. He refused to allow the military an untrammeled hand in putting down the revolt and agreed to recognize the Moro National Liberation Front. Then he undercut its leadership by coaxing Moslem local field commanders into surrendering with generous amnesty conditions and promises of "utmost autonomy" in the Moslem areas...
...farmboy and friend of city folks, deep-dyed populist and friend of everybody but big business, may be closer to the New South Zeitgeist than his less reconciliatory Democratic opponent George Wallace. Certainly, a strong showing by Carter in the states Wallace has dominated for a decade would seriously undercut the Alabama governor's paraplegic presidential bid. And obviously, a strong regional showing is a must for Carter, who must prove that he can carry the South before he can sell himself as a national candidate...
...massive show or police power, the biggest in years, undercut new King Juan Carlos's efforts at liberalization and his pardon order freeing Camacho and a few others serving sentences for "political offenses...
...particularly likable character. In the novel, he is unpleasant because of his extreme morbidity; in this production, because of his insipidity. He must emerge, however, as something more than self-parody. Unless he embraces his Christian mission with evident conviction, the painful irony of his demise is undercut, and the play belongs totally to the ever-cynical Shrike...
...CHUL unwisely undercut its new open policy by giving its executive committee the option of closing any CHUL meeting. The executive committee should not have that prerogative. Furthermore, the CHUL should make all its proceedings, including subcommittee work, open to the public...