Word: undercutting
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...labelmonstrosities? Steve's answer--that sinceengineering's not an art, he's not prostitutinghimself, but rather extorting major labels withoutgiving a damn about the quality of the music hehappens to be recording--is relatively reasonable,but he's still intuitively branded a sell-out bymany. His position is somewhat undercut by hisdistinctive "engineering" style, which is perhapsthe most influential Albini legacy. Steve tries tomake it sound like the band is performing live inyour speakers, and he's quite good at this. Heusually mixes guitars and drums high and vocalslow. Music critics usually dub the sound "raw,"but this...
...Pentagon was confronting some hard choices. After 14 years of shrinking defense outlays, it faced a $270 billion annual budget that would just keep pace with inflation. The military would have to kill some costly cold war-era weapons programs, slash its 1.4 million-man fighting force or undercut the readiness of U.S. troops to fight. But the tacit alliance last week of President, Pentagon and lawmakers averts any major, post-cold war restructuring of the U.S. military. And postponing that day of reckoning will be expensive for taxpayers...
James J. Rafferty, a Cambridge lawyer and along-time political observer, believespre-election polls tend to undercut Flynn'ssupport, as some voters may not want to admit tosupporting the former mayor before the primary...
...stand on principle is kind of undercut inthat way," Rockwell said...
...Ghauri missile. Both countries have balked at a test ban in the past and have refused to negotiate a halt to production of fissile material. India does not want U.S. meddling in Kashmir. Japan has agreed to cut its sizable economic aid, but Washington expects Europe to undercut sanctions and to trade with both countries. Even the U.S. is worried that severe economic penalties might only serve to create two basket-case countries with bombs. A costly arms race would be just as economically ruinous...