Word: undercutting
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...vote of the Economics Department tenured faculty. Even liberal Democrats on the faculty, like Otto Eckstein and Robert Dorfman, opposed Bowles. The radicals saw the faculty saying that, in a liberal university, all ideas are to be tolerated-except those ideas that critically undercut the very basis of liberal scholarship, the liberal credos of the scholar as an impartial observer of society and the university as an ivory tower outside the influence and direction of the prevailing social order...
...member producers of the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries. Indeed, Mexican officials are expected to begin sitting in on OPEC meetings soon as observers. Mexican President Luis Echeverria Alvarez told President Ford last month that Mexico would export its oil at world prices, diluting hopes that it might undercut those vastly inflated quotes. These just might begin coming down soon anyway. A Saudi Arabian official last week reportedly told delegates to the Arab summit at Rabat that his nation would shortly make a unilateral price cut of less than 10%; officially, the Saudis denied the report. In any case...
...made extensive, energetic preparations for his economic message to the nation this week (see cover stories, THE ECONOMY). He beat back an attempt by the Senate to undercut his foreign policy. He made a startling offer to go before Congress to explain why he had pardoned Richard Nixon. He met with 22 of the nation's mayors and pledged to sign an $11.8 billion mass-transit bill. He reorganized his fumbling White House staff. Though he was obviously distracted by his wife's bout with cancer and visited her every day at the hospital, he also dined with...
...because of the close vote in the presidential campaign, there was a real danger of a split in French society, accompanied by violence. Well, not at all. We have had no major strikes, no major social or student problems. I think that the liberal attitude of our administration has undercut the left...
...contract--a revision of the April 1943 pact that instituted coeducational classes--allowed Radcliffe to designate the dean as president of Radcliffe if its trustees desired. But the responsibilities of the administrative head of what remained of "Radcliffe" had been so undercut that the retention of the title, "president of Radcliffe," represented a last meager attempt to maintain Radcliffe's identity as a women's institution distinct from the university that now controlled...