Word: undercutting
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Supreme Court Justice William O. Douglas, in dissenting from the crucial Caldwell decision, wrote that the government has amassed the power "to suffocate both people and causes." Passing the Segel bill with the suggested amendment would help undercut one source of that power, and at least protect the rights of the Massachusetts press to operate freely...
...before it really got off the ground-principally by ex-Jesuit Garry Wills in an acerbic 1971 piece in New York magazine. Wills' article (currently a chapter in his book Bare Ruined Choirs) was made even more damaging by the accompanying photos of seminarians lounging en deshabille. It undercut Woodstock's hopes and image at a crucial time...
...Springfield case the SJC had ruled that "although we will pass on questions of law related to the interpretation and enforcement of the statute (RIA), it is not appropriate for us to enter directly into the form of the racial balance plans.") Sullivan, feeling he was being undercut, decided to throw the decision...
...political instabilities inherent in current attempts to create urban proletariats in the midst or rural poverty: nor would it hold out the false promise of urban affluence, for which the resources probably do not exist. Furthermore, by establishing a genuine interdependence between capital and the local areas, it would undercut the main argument for expropriation and nationalization of foreign-owned enterprises: namely, that because these enterprises are owned by foreigners, they are not responsive to native interests. Indeed, the vested interest that would be established in local areas to specific groups of factories, or to the future prospect of such...
...named Labor Secretary Peter J. Brennan, head of the New York Building and Construction Trades Council, called for dismantling wage controls. Yet Brennan has gone along with the committee in the past and as Labor Secretary-and the committee's nominal boss-he is unlikely to try to undercut Dunlop. Both men realize that whatever progress has been made in unscrambling construction's chaotic pay pacts could only have been accomplished by forceful Government intervention in the bargaining process...