Word: undercutting
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Schlesinger patrolled the halls, buttonholing Senators to argue that such a drastic cut would weaken NATO and undercut negotiations with the Russians for mutual troop reduction in Europe. It would also save the U.S. little money because the forces would only be brought back to America, not demobilized. Similar arguments were raised by General Andrew J. Goodpaster Jr., who is the Supreme Allied Commander in Europe and just happened to be in Washington, in telephone calls to key Senators. On the final vote, in which four Senators changed their votes, the Mansfield amendment was defeated...
Though psychology and economics both make for steady growth in land values over the long run, bubbles of pure speculation always burst sooner or later. Investors are already getting a lesson that land prices can go down as well as up. High construction costs and urban blight have undercut property values in some city areas. The land under the Boston Edison Building was worth about $200 per square foot in the 1920s; today it is less than half that, though property values in other parts of town have risen. A speculative orgy of overbuilding in New York City has driven...
...Popular unrest in the U.S. threatens to undercut support for a powerful chief executive--the primary agent of the growing industrial supergiants in their efforts to circumvent New Deal government regulation...
...Popular unrest in the U.S. threatens to undercut support for a powerful chief executive--the primary agent of the growing industrial super-giants in their efforts to circumvent New Deal government regulation...
Liberal Response: To determine academic programs on the basis of sources of outside funds would undercut the very foundations of academic freedon and the independent university...