Word: undercutting
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...complacent and comfortable hear-no-evil, see-no-evil slouch in front of the radio and television sets of America." Critics of U.S. broadcasting point out that the insufficiency of that service is probably less attributable to the networks than to the local channels. Affiliated stations frequently undercut the networks' efforts to increase cultural and public-affairs programming by refusing to carry it. Similarly, in order to increase profits, the stations stint on such programming at home. A recent informal poll of local newspaper editors by the trade paper Variety found that in their opinion more than...
Finally, Huntington lists additional means whereby the U. S. can ensure the outcome it desires. Among these are support of populist non-communist leaders that undercut NLF support (Peron and Rojas Pinilla are cited as examples), U. S. control over national media, and the use of bribes and "perk-barrel" projects...
...most striking aspect of Tracy Gray's advice to his peers is of course that he is rediscovering the role that parents used to play in the pre-technological era?moral guidance. Today's stress on technical knowledge has undercut that role; yet knowledge is multiplying so fast that parents might well return to teaching wisdom rather than facts that soon become obsolete. Tom Winship, father of four and editor of the Boston Globe, believes that for the past ten years the nation's children have provided the "energy and courage" for most social progress: civil rights, campus reform, ecology...
Administration officials insist that they have no intention of abandoning any part of the South to George Wallace, although they concede that they had hoped their policy had been conciliatory enough to undercut Wallace and prevent his victory in Alabama. Despite Wallace's survival, "nobody's writing off the Wallace states in any shape or form," says one Nixon official...
...force, from 25% two years ago to 35% now?including two deputy chiefs. Nearly half his rookies in training are black. But, unlike other police chiefs, he has downplayed mere public relations. He knows only too well that a chief's lectures to community groups can be quickly undercut by incidents like one last year in which a white policeman fatally shot a black robbery suspect. The victim turned out to be an undercover...