Word: undercutting
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...swearing in as Ambassador to the Court of St. James's. Richardson said he thought that the odds were fifty-fifty that the Secretary would resign before the end of the year, depending upon the strain of the job and how much Kissinger felt he was being undercut by Congress. Richardson added that he thought he had a 2-to-l chance of becoming the next Secretary of State...
...government's current strategy is to undercut the Baptist underground by building up the All-Union Council and its support in the West; some concessions have been granted the council, and its membership is up. But prospects are bleak for the rival movement. Thousands of Initsiativniki have been forced back into the All-Union Council or outside of all organized religion. For Vins himself, the future almost certainly holds a sentence of up to ten years, since acquittal in political cases is virtually unknown. Vins' wife and four children fear that given his shaky health, he will follow...
...Aramco, and one of Faisal's first decisions had to be to cut the oil-fueled allowances of fellow princes. Faisal's predicament, explains a U.S. Middle East watcher, is that "he is a feudal monarch, and the more he modernizes, the more he is apt to undercut his basis for rule...
Staff attorneys for the Children's Defense Fund--a group that lobbied for the Buckley law and has opposed Pell's attempts to amend it--said yesterday that "Wexler's draft" has "undercut" and "screwed over" the original student files law in an effort to "kowtow to places like Harvard...
Changing Society. Some parents, feeling that their authority over their children will be further undercut, are dismayed by the trend. But there seems to be growing-if reluctant-acceptance of the fact that in a changing society, such measures are necessary. Sexual activity among teen-agers has increased enormously in recent years, and so have sex-related problems. According to studies conducted by the Department of Health, Education and Welfare, three out of every ten teen-agers who have had sexual intercourse have at least one out-of-wedlock pregnancy; three-quarters of all teen-age pregnancies occur outside marriage...