Word: undercutting
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Unlike Reagan, Carter also declared that the U.S. had a fallback position: he remained willing to negotiate SALT II along the lines set out previously by Gerald Ford. Reagan's advisers feel that Carter abandoned his radical initiative too early and undercut himself by having a fallback position already stated. "There is a strong feeling here that we should have stuck to our guns in 1977," says one State policymaker. Thus the Administration refuses to talk about any other options or compromise positions. The instructions that have been given to Paul Nitze, the veteran negotiator who heads...
...speech last week (see NATION), President Reagan moved to seize the opportunity. In.offering to drop plans to deploy U.S. intermediate-range missiles if the Soviets dismantle theirs, he tried, belatedly and for the first time, to allay Europe's roiling fears. He also sought to undercut Soviet President Leonid Brezhnev, who had skillfully exploited America's essential and long-held views on nuclear strategy to portray the Soviet Union as the only superpower devoted to the search for peace (see ESSAY). While Reagan's proposal was hailed by Europe's leaders, the reaction of the peace groups was ambivalent. They...
...price war is only the latest in a series of headaches for Laker, and the outspoken Sir Freddie has begun to sound as cranky and befuddled as many of the competitors he undercut to get a share of the North Atlantic route four years ago. Sniped he of the Pan Am action: "It is nothing less than suicidal marketing that could endanger the fabric of the airline industry as a whole...
When Jackson left the second game after the second inning with a strained calf muscle, Piniella replaced him in the outfield for a time and batted well in the clutch. Lou undercut a three-run homer in a seven-run fourth inning that pretty much put an end to all the talk about Billyball...
...with ideas, at least on the level this subject needs, is not Wolfe's forte. As in The Painted Word, he ends up doing what he accuses his bogies of: the meaning of the work is drowned in a spate of "theory," and each time the theory is undercut by Wolfe's stridently commonsensical attitudes. These, after a while, read like condescension, as a rigid adherence to the surface usually does. Plus ça change, plus c'est la méme pose. -By Robert Hughes