Word: undercutting
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...doing, they probably lost whatever chance Washington might have had to prevent the massacre, though doubtless that chance would have been extremely slim at best. Although the U.S. denounced the Israeli occupation of West Beirut, the President undercut the force of the protest. Campaigning in New Jersey, Reagan offhandedly commented, "I'm sure what led them to move in was an attack by some leftist militia forces." Says one U.S. foreign policy analyst: "Begin is always watching to see if Reagan will go soft. And he will always choose to believe those Reagan statements over a diplomatic message...
...Robert Michel of Illinois and promised to support the $211 million jobs program for the elderly in a future bill. Administration lobbyists also passed the word that the President would not fight for his extra $2 billion in defense funds in a subsequent measure. With those pledges, however, Reagan undercut his argument for vetoing the measure in the first place. "Why this charade?" asked Democrat Leon Panetta of California. "Why go through this process...
...Washington has urged Colombia to spray the herbicide on its marijuana crop, but the country refuses to do so until the U.S. does the same to its own. Even if the U.S. begins using paraquat, many Government experts fear that domestic marijuana production has gone too far to be undercut at this late date. Says one discouraged DEA official: "Sometimes I feel like we are trying to enforce Prohibition." -ByAnastasia Toufexis. Reported by Jonathan Beaty/Washington and Lee Griggs/Chicago
...loans (as low as 6% vs. about 16% in the U.S.) and government aid for research and development. Moreover, the Americans say, such large and diversified companies as Hitachi (1981 sales: $15 billion) and Nippon Electric ($5 billion) could afford to forgo profits on memory chips in order to undercut competitors. In the jargon of foreign trade, Japan has allegedly "dumped" chips in the U.S. market at a price lower than production costs...
...teachings. In the late 1970s, Desmond Ford, a prominent Australian theologian who was teaching at the church-run Pacific Union College in California, made the case that White's "sanctuary" explication of 1844 no longer stood up in the light of the Bible, and that "investigative judgment" undercut the whole basis of Protestantism: belief in salvation by God's grace apart from good works. This prompted the founding of a dissident bimonthly, Evangelica, based in Napa, Calif. Before long, the church forced the resignation or expulsion, by one count, of 120 Adventist clergy and teachers. Ford was defrocked...