Word: undercutting
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...because the local military will not be strong enough to carry on alone. President Nixon has promised a new troopwithdrawal announcement next week -based on the assumption that the U.S. will continue to supply the Vietnamese with military hardware. Indeed, the argument goes, the whole Nixon Doctrine would be undercut by ending aid; the President's reduction of the U.S. physical presence overseas is designed to be offset by continuing-even temporarily increased-U.S. military and economic assistance...
...four years. But the community of Petersburg, where Bland is located, already has a four-year school, Virginia State College, which is predominantly black. Both colleges were once officially segregated, and a special three-judge district court barred Eland's expansion on the grounds that it would undercut efforts to integrate Virginia State. The Supreme Court agreed. It also let stand a lower court ruling that forbade Brighton, Ala., to sell an abandoned junior high school building to a group intending to establish a whites-only private academy. The sale, the lower court said, would encourage racial discrimination...
...then turning on him by supporting the non-renewal of his contract, Kilbridge contributed to a growing distrust at the GSD. And, by arbitrarily circumventing the decision of the School's admissions committee in order to attract one man to chair the Planning Department, Kilbridge undercut every tenet of Harvard's academic tradition...
...fact, a settlement seemed imminent after Oswald surprised the visiting mediators by agreeing to 28 of the 30 prisoner demands. He balked only at complete amnesty, which he considered both unlawful and "nonnegotiable," and at the prisoners' insistence that Warden Mancusi be fired. Dumping Mancusi, Oswald contended, would undercut superintendents throughout the New York system...
...that reason, they are already drawing up advertising campaigns that emphasize low prices rather than the usual pretty pictures of faraway places."It will be a devil-take-the-hindrhost situation," predicts a BOAC executive in London. "No airline will allow itself to be undercut. But nobody will be happy about...