Word: undercutting
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...return for the U.S.'s abandoning its plans to deploy Pershing II and cruise missiles in Europe beginning in December. No such U.S. initiative is likely, though, until after the March 6 elections in West Germany. Any softening of the American stance before then, U.S. officials believe, would undercut Chancellor Helmut Kohl, a firm supporter of the new NATO deployment, in his race against Social Democrat Hans-Jochen Vogel...
...Lorenz Hart' witty and graceful lyrics, they pull the show along at an exhilarating clip, and in between numbers, George Abbott's book provides just the right mix of Shakespearean vaudeville and vaudevillian Shakespeare. Large chunks of iambic pentameter are carelessly tossed across the stage, only to be nimbly undercut by an outrageously topical reference or a wonderfully bad pun. And since its 1938 world premiere at the Shubert Theater, Boston, The Boys From Syracuse inspired quite a few more Shakespeare musicals, most notably Kiss Me, Kate, and its influence can also be seen all over A Funny Thing Happened...
...American emissaries carried no fresh initiatives of real substance. Instead, they sought to reassure America's allies with friendly rhetoric and promises of flexibility on both arms control and other tender issues. To a large extent, each man succeeded, though Reagan's loose talk about propaganda undercut Bush...
However, where stock overlaps, CVS and Rix usually undercut their competitors. All the stores we visited sell 100-sheet packages of regular-lined filler paper. At Rix, you can buy it for 99 cents; at CVS it costs $1.33. The Coop, Store 24 and Bob Slate sell it for $1.45, $1.65, and $1.98 respectively...
...year, China has balked. It argued that, since it runs an annual trade deficit of $600 million with the U.S., it should be allowed a growth rate closer to 6%. That is anathema to U.S. textile producers and labor organizations; they claim that U.S. manufacturers are being undercut by low-wage producers in Asia...