Word: undercutting
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THIS MEANINGLESS consensus, however, is not as harmless as it looks. It has, in fact, the potential to undercut anti-war sentiment in two significant ways. It vindicates and humanizes supporters of the administration: See, they say with a complacent shrug, we're not so bad. We, too, oppose barbarism...
...quick succession, the party leaders of the state television network and the radio stations as well as leaders of the composers' union have all been forced to resign. Some 300 journalists have been fired for harboring liberal tendencies. To undercut the bargaining position of Czechoslovakia's nine unions of artists, writers and other creative people, Minister of Culture Miroslav Bružek has declared that he will deal with members strictly on an individual basis. Only those who obey the party line will be given financial aid and permission to travel abroad...
...threat was discounted by U.S. authorities in Saigon and by most South Vietnamese politicians. The greatest restraining influence against a coup is the conviction in Saigon that the Americans would wash their hands of the commitment in Viet Nam if the politicians and generals undercut the country's fragile stability by staging another government overthrow...
...most successful performance was that of Jack Shea in the role of Aemilian, perhaps because his part was undercut by the play's facetiousness. Unlike the other major characters, Aemilian does not have to balance aloof wit with deeply-felt philosophy...
...financial community would also accept him as the sobersided entrepreneur that he believes himself to be. He started his company with $25,000 borrowed from his father, bought IBM computers and leased them to users at rates below IBM's own rental charges. He could undercut IBM's prices because he was willing to risk depreciating the computers over eight instead of four years, gambling successfully on a longer useful life of the equipment. From this base he moved into related fields, buying a container-leasing company and developing software, data and time-sharing operations...