Word: undercutting
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...easily nullified his veto of a health-services bill that provides $2 billion for such needs as nurses training, community mental-health centers and rape prevention. Ford had complained that the bill would cost too much. A single new override does not mean, of course, that Congress has lastingly undercut Ford's veto strength...
...George Segal. And even though both actors turned out excellent performances, they almost spoiled the film. It was as if they'd been given too much freedom, because Gould's happy-go-lucky interpretation made Segal's tortured gambler seem cliched, as though his problems were silly. Segal undercut Gould, too, making him seem shallow. With the actors canceling each other out like that, the film became curiously objective...
...come a program - funded in part by energy taxes aimed at inducing conservation - to exploit domestic potential to the fullest. To guard against a future embargo, the Government could pur chase a stock pile of oil, with producers submitting sealed bids; that just might stimulate some producing nations to undercut OPEC's prices. The U.S. nonpolicy on energy and congressional inaction are both dangerous and scandalous...
...investigative journalism has long depended on the court-recognized right of a reporter to protect his sources in most situations by withholding their names from public disclosure. Otherwise, ordinary citizens, fearful of retaliation by powerful people, might hesitate to speak out about wrongdoing. Two cases now seriously threaten to undercut that First Amendment right. In Fresno, Calif., a judge sentenced two editors and two reporters to serve indefinite terms in jail because they refused to reveal how their newspaper, the Fresno Bee, obtained and later printed sealed grand jury testimony. The testimony centered on a bribery and conspiracy indictment...
...numerous delays, including the vociferous protests from communities surrounding the site, citing possible environmental damage, have caused the corporation's endowment to be severely undercut...