Word: undercutting
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...four years. But the community of Petersburg, where Bland is located, already has a four-year school, Virginia State College, which is predominantly black. Both colleges were once officially segregated, and a special three-judge district court barred Eland's expansion on the grounds that it would undercut efforts to integrate Virginia State. The Supreme Court agreed. It also let stand a lower court ruling that forbade Brighton, Ala., to sell an abandoned junior high school building to a group intending to establish a whites-only private academy. The sale, the lower court said, would encourage racial discrimination...
...then turning on him by supporting the non-renewal of his contract, Kilbridge contributed to a growing distrust at the GSD. And, by arbitrarily circumventing the decision of the School's admissions committee in order to attract one man to chair the Planning Department, Kilbridge undercut every tenet of Harvard's academic tradition...
...fact, a settlement seemed imminent after Oswald surprised the visiting mediators by agreeing to 28 of the 30 prisoner demands. He balked only at complete amnesty, which he considered both unlawful and "nonnegotiable," and at the prisoners' insistence that Warden Mancusi be fired. Dumping Mancusi, Oswald contended, would undercut superintendents throughout the New York system...
...that reason, they are already drawing up advertising campaigns that emphasize low prices rather than the usual pretty pictures of faraway places."It will be a devil-take-the-hindrhost situation," predicts a BOAC executive in London. "No airline will allow itself to be undercut. But nobody will be happy about...
Though price hikes on all other steel products are so far not affected, there is growing doubt as to whether the industry can make its increases stick in such a soft market. In fact, two weeks ago, Bethlehem and National Steel undercut by as much as 1% the 8% boost posted by U.S. Steel on tin-mill products used in cans. For all the competitive scramble, there are strict limits on the extent to which the industry can cut back or discount its posted prices. The recent settlement with the United Steel Workers will cost more than $1 billion...