Word: undercutting
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...YEARBOOK'S decision to let pictures tell the story would make more sense if the photos had been selected with a bit more care. The good ones (like the WHRB series or the girl combing her hair on page 117) are all the time undercut by self-conscious posed snapshots and full-page pictures of subjects like a Radcliffe bulletin board or a Harvard toilet. Graphically, the book seems reasonably inventive and handsome, though the moody two-page shot of an athlete running up the Soldier's Field steps with last year's sports scores illegibly super-imposed in matching...
Some members of SDS view the committee as an attempt to undercut their position. In an effort to dispel that fear, the CRSR decided not to participate in any informal discussions with the Faculty or Administration unless members of SDS and Afro and present in at least an observer capacity...
...same time," as one top adviser puts it ?and make them largely in secrecy. He must maintain the pressure on the battlefield, but not so intensely that Hanoi breaks off the peace talks in Paris. He must continue preparing the South Vietnamese to assume more responsibility, but not undercut them by bargaining with the North behind their backs. He must allow the Saigon government to negotiate as an equal partner, but not permit it to exhaust U.S. public patience by foot dragging. In all this, an essential element is the reliability of the South Vietnamese government...
...time being, Congress will probably content itself with imposing further limitations on lumber exports to Japan. Such restrictions should help to relieve the shortage and ease prices. On the other hand, they would undercut Washington's goals of fostering free world trade and improving the U.S.'s balance of trade. In any case, Congress can scarcely overlook the need to revamp the nation's timber management policies. That is something that Washington has not done for 30 years...
...general expectation was that the President would choose to continue the ABM program in some form, despite the bitter criticism that that course would draw. To do otherwise would amount to a vote of no confidence in the military and undercut Defense Secretary Melvin Laird, who has come out in favor of the ABM. In the highly unlikely event that Nixon chose to abandon this system, he would come under heavy fire from those Americans who voted for him at least in part because he promised to guarantee clear U.S. military superiority over the Soviet Union. To steer a cautious...