Word: undercutting
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...Morality is binding universally or not at all." On Rhodesia, the South Africans feel that Washington has made a number of strategic errors, initially by failing to use enough persuasive force on the Patriotic Front leaders to make some kind of deal with Smith, and then by trying to undercut the internal settlement as the basis for further negotiations...
...first, some Cabinet members were rankled by Eizenstat's influence with the President. Says White House Press Secretary Jody Powell: "In the past, Cabinet people have tried to undercut Stu. But now the word is out that this sort of thing just doesn't make it any more." Still, a few Administration officials complain that Eizenstat often looks at issues mostly from a short-range political viewpoint. Last week several economic advisers were grumbling that he is too deeply involved in economic policy. He took some courses in economics at college but majored in political science. His critics...
Warmer weather and increased production from non-U.M.W. mines had undercut the strike's effectiveness. Moreover, the financial burden of the walkout was finally grinding down the stubborn miners and their families. "I'm hurtin'," confessed Miner Johnny Elkins, 25, of Hernshaw, W. Va., who voted against the last contract offer. To make ends meet, he had been cutting and selling firewood for $35 a truckload. "Now spring's coming," said Elkins, "and people ain't needing firewood." So he traded in his chain saw for a secondhand trail bike and voted...
...Newsweek, which paid $50,000 down for U.S. magazine rights before being undercut by the flagship daily of its own parent Washington Post Co., executives will wait to see how well Haldeman plays on the newsstands before figuring how much of the $75,000 balance they should pay. Times Syndicate officials, who had sold serialization rights to various publications for roughly $1 million, now estimate that, all in all, their take will be reduced by as much as $600,000. Times Co. officials were not yet certain that they had sufficient grounds to sue the Post Co., and Post...
...Melnick points out, Harvard's slipshod minority recruitment program is indicative of its slipshod commitment. The institutional framework of minority recruitment at Harvard is characterized by its unprofessionalism. It is obvious from Melnick's piece that student recruitment, a major thrust of recruitment at Harvard, is undercut; that professional recruitment is not a formal institutional objective; and that disorganization and incoherence pervade the minority recruitment effort in such a way that, in the future, these may serve as excuses to cut off all funds and cancel all obligations. As Enrique Moreno correctly observes, student recruitment will have to justify itself...