Word: undercutting
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Both groups refused to send representatives to a graduate student-Faculty committee, which they viewed as a University attempt to undercut the potential for a reorganized union...
...they have been helpful in [resolving the minds of] the undecided. The one mistake I made [the reference to Eastern Europe not being under Soviet domination] -I don't know how serious it is. We can only tell on Nov. 2. On the other hand, I think [Carter] undercut his own situation by his comment on Yugoslavia. The statement that he would not send U.S. troops into Yugoslavia has got to worry a lot of the Eastern European people in this country. And it certainly ought to concern our allies, who think it highly important that we not commit...
...enhanced his chances for re-election over a formidable Democratic opponent, Gloria Schaffer. Schaffer, Connecticut's secretary of state, is considered handicapped in her bid for the Senate by the presence of one woman already holding statewide office, Democratic Governor Ella Grasso. Weicker's acceptability to liberals should undercut Schaffer's base of support, and his unique appeal to both the right and the left should insure his return to the Senate...
...best thing Ford has going for him, and he knows it." Ford staffers do not disagree. They are purposely running negative television ads-like the ones that feature fellow Georgians running down Carter's record as Governor-not to convert voters to the President but to undercut his opponent and depress the vote...
Even assuming Fitzgerald's personal pride came back with the return of his income, his distaste for screenwriting work, combined with a long string of personal failures, must have undercut his sense of success. From his early fight with producer Joe Mankiewicz, who re-wrote his script for The Three Comrades when Fitzgerald screamed that the film would flop, to his embarassing hospitalization after a drinking bout on the Dartmouth set of Winter Carnival, Fitzgerald's years in Hollywood forced him to abandon his dream of America's materialistic ideal. He simply could not write his best and make...