Word: undercutting
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...admitted that he was surprised to learn that Miss Woods had nine original tapes in her possession as late as Monday of last week?despite agreement that only recently made copies of the tapes should be played so as to prevent harm to the originals. Press Secretary Ronald Ziegler undercut Buzhardt with faint praise, saying: "I don't want to express criticism, publicly, of any person. He has been working very hard. We've made some mistakes during this period...
...Green finished with a 6-20 slate, and an Ivy League ranking undercut only by Nadel's number-one ranked team in the country, Cornell...
...arty films that actually get made. Last Tango in Paris, for example, is a film about decadence, but it becomes decadent itself only in its sex scenes, where filmmaker Bernardo Bertolucci, caught between discarded rules of decorum and unacceptable liberality, filmed simulations and dirty jokes. The petty sex scenes undercut the excellence of the rest of the film...
...Sharply undercut the exclusionary rule barring the use of illegally seized evidence by permitting it to be introduced in court if the improper police conduct was not "outrageous...
Schlesinger patrolled the halls, buttonholing Senators to argue that such a drastic cut would weaken NATO and undercut negotiations with the Russians for mutual troop reduction in Europe. It would also save the U.S. little money because the forces would only be brought back to America, not demobilized. Similar arguments were raised by General Andrew J. Goodpaster Jr., who is the Supreme Allied Commander in Europe and just happened to be in Washington, in telephone calls to key Senators. On the final vote, in which four Senators changed their votes, the Mansfield amendment was defeated...