Word: undercutting
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Vice President launched a sneaky missile in the debate when he challenged his rivals to release their tax returns. Dole was the target; Bush aides estimate he and his wife Elizabeth had combined 1986 incomes of close to $600,000. If true, this figure might undercut Dole's pleas to Iowa voters to regard...
...have learned to take the holidays in stride, to sashay through the swing season with a dignified sense of balance. Not the Captain. Balance was supposed to come with middle age, but these days he feels shakier than ever. The season overwhelms him with its polarities. Grand abstractions are undercut by particular forms. The gratitude of Thanksgiving reduced to a half-chewed drumstick. The generosity of Hanukkah and Christmas to Tammy Faye Bakker dolls. The renewal of New Year's to a horn toot...
...opposition party, led by former Agriculture Minister George Brizan, has already undercut Blaize's support. Of the 15 elected members of Parliament who belong to Blaize's New National Party, five have defected to Brizan's National Democratic Congress. Some fear Brizan may split the country's political center and ensure the return of former Prime Minister Sir Eric Gairy, whose eccentric, right-wing regime during the late 1970s led to Bishop's rise...
...Steinbrenner's timing represents more than a delightful omen for Yankee haters the world over. "The Fat Man" has inadvertently undercut his own ink-quest...
...toys, the NICs, which include South Korea, Singapore, Hong Kong, Taiwan, Mexico and Brazil, have gone upscale, producing everything from VCRs and computers to cars and commuter planes. By importing technology and deploying armies of low-paid but often well-educated workers, the NICs have been able to undercut competitors' prices in markets all over the world. From 1980 to 1986, NIC exports jumped 56%, to $175 billion...