Word: undercutting
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Sagansky says that a decrease in the number of Harvard men would undercut alumni financing and have an adverse effect on Harvard athletics...
...President's public position was also undercut by the revelation that Special Prosecutor Leon Jaworski had issued a new subpoena for Watergate evidence. At the time that Nixon was telling his Houston audience that he had "cooperated completely with the grand jury" in its Watergate investigations, he knew-but did not mention-that Jaworski had been denied many tapes and documents and had therefore issued a subpoena to get them. Its existence was not revealed by Jaworski, but by Nixon's counsel, James St. Clair, in a television interview. Jaworski had been willing to keep the matter secret...
Bill Casey went far to undercut the Government's main case against both. The two men are charged with taking a secret $200,000 cash contribution for Richard Nixon's 1972 presidential campaign from Financier Robert Vesco and, in return, trying to hinder an SEC investigation into his dealings with some overseas mutual funds...
...some factual errors. (One of Shipier's mistakes, the statement that 2,200 U.S. employees of private defense contractors have left Viet Nam since last July, actually weakens the ambassador's argument; Martin says that only 740 have departed.) But the inaccuracies Martin finds do not undercut Shipler's major points. These Martin attacks with invective and some assertions of his own. The "course of the war" is not set by U.S. aid; rather it is set by "the continuous and continuing Communist buildup." In fact, materiel from both Hanoi and the U.S. contribute to the tempo...
...regular opera company skirmishes with a troupe of comedians for possession of the stage. Their battle ends in a draw and each is forced to endure the other's presence on stage during the performance of the sorrows of Ariadne. Strauss uses the vigorous movement and comic music to undercut the idealized romantic opera on which the comedians trespass...