Word: undercutting
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Rostow had other problems with the White House. It undercut his attempt to appoint the man he wanted as his deputy, Robert Grey, a career State Department official, choosing to give in to the challenge of a few conservative Republican Senators, including North Carolina's Jesse Helms. Reagan, in fact, finally dropped Grey's name from consideration. White House aides leaked word that this was really a ploy to get Rostow angry enough to quit. They maintained that Rostow treated the President with professorial condescension, was too prickly to deal with and offered his opinions on matters beyond...
...Services Corporation, which provides 85% of the money that supports local legal aid offices. Congress has so far managed to save the LSC, but did allow a 25% cut in its current budget, reducing it to $241 million. Reagan, who believes the LSC is misused by ultraliberal lawyers, has undercut its effectiveness by appointing an interim eleven-member board of directors, most of whom are basically opposed to what the corporation does. Last week the board signaled its intent to withhold funds from local groups that it deemed too "activist," and next year it is likely to attempt to block...
...Brock insisted that new reductions in trade barriers were essential, and pushed aggressively for major reductions in the European Community's agricultural export subsidies. Brock even threatened to start a trade war by dumping 200,000 metric tons of butter on the world market in an effort to undercut European prices. Angry Western European ministers called for scrutiny of the U.S.'s multibillion-dollar farm programs. Said Denmark's Foreign Minister Uffe Ellemann-Jensen: the U.S. is "trying to get us to give up a lot without giving anything in return." In the transatlantic dueling, the Japanese...
...patient coalition building that made his rise to power possible. Few of the contenders for the succession labored under more formidable handicaps. Leonid Brezhnev, wary of Andropov, opposed his police chiefs ambitions. But Brezhnev's first choice, Andrei Kirilenko, fell ill or was disgraced last year. Then Andropov gradually undercut the heir apparent, Konstantin Chernenko, a longtime Brezhnev crony who was vulnerable because he lacked both experience and political pull...
...ADMINISTRATION'S preparations for space warfare serve to undercut United Nations efforts--such as the recently-concluded Unispace '82 conference in Vienna--to set guidelines encouraging the exploration and peaceful use of outer space. Moreover, accepting the notion that America has a "space border" that must be defended like other borders will heighten cold war tensions and increase the possibility of a nuclear war. Worst of all, the resources spent militarizing space will be diverted from more practical and often desperately needed purposes. For instance, science-fiction writer Arthur C. Clarke, who predicted a satellite age as early...