Word: undercutting
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Some Faculty members maintain that the delay is aimed at relieving pressure on Bok to make Dean Dunlop Provost. Dunlop has been widely mentioned as the most likely candidate for Provost, but Bok may feel that someone with Dunlop's confidence and power may undercut his own power during the first months of office...
...Republican Governors Conference at Williamsburg last week, Agnew summoned nine reporters to a late-night off-the-record chat and argued that the Administration was moving too fast in welcoming Peking's overtures, which he viewed as an easy propaganda victory for China and one, moreover, that undercut Taiwan. After his views leaked out, Agnew aides denied that there was any disagreement between the Vice President and his boss-though clearly there had been. If Agnew hoped to gain politically, he had badly misread the mood of the nation, which heavily favored Nixon's steps toward detente with...
Bresson's success is precisely in this capacity to coax sentimentalized associations and then undercut them with his formal austerity-the down-turned camera angles, the quick cutting away from scenes, the static framing. What is left is a nature that is neither scorned nor valued, only accepted for the fact of its existence...
...minimum, these changes make the N.Y.S.E. a less secure and lucrative place for a broker. For 179 years, the Big Board has had two major attractions: it offered a broker a commission structure that competitors could not undercut and it was just about the only place where a broker could trade the nation's best-known and most popular stocks. Last week both of those keystones began to crumble, raising the question: Who really needs the exchange...
...CRIMSON statement is not only wrong: it threatens to undercut valued relationships with legal services offices, other law reform agencies, and constituency groups such as the National Welfare Rights Organization-the people who are bringing about educational change. We will expand our efforts to help them...