Word: undercutting
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...West's oeuvre, with everything from a short story to television interviews to commentrary on race, politics, literature, music and sexuality. It is a book about self-discovery, and West's efforts to come to terms with himself and the world he lives in. This lofty aim is often undercut by what can be interpreted as grandiose, self serving comments, but one would find it hard to fault West or the book for his unceasing vigilance in attempting to understand himself and his surroundings. What one finds in the Reader is a deeply committed philosopher, questing after what he considers...
...second straight week, the sabre undercut otherwise sound performances by the Harvard men's and women's fencing teams...
When Redmond voiced these views publicly--views which undercut Seton's relationship with University Hall--the unconsulted president countered that the last thing the beleaguered student government needs is enemies within the administration--and criticism from within the council...
...named Thorstein Veblen predicted that one day, engineers would be the true masters of the financial universe. It's technology that drives the economy, he argued, and since engineers create the stuff, it'll only be a matter of time before they come to their senses, seize power and undercut the venture capitalists and corporate bigwigs who make so much dough from other people's brilliant ideas. Veblen was right, it turns out. And though they never met, the man who would lead the revolution was a more recent Stanford professor, peripatetic Jim Clark...
...patients to sue their HMOs for uncovered medical costs, but in varying degrees - added to the general legislative tangle that has been the story of Capitol Hill this summer and fall. Things got complicated Tuesday when House GOP leaders did an about-face, gun-control-style, and sought to undercut a popular right-to-sue bill with a watered-down version of their own. That bill had Democratic backing and enough Republicans aboard to pass the House; now it?s mired in what the Dems say is GOP trickery. And as the debate slogged on, Clinton hit the Rose Garden...