Word: undercutting
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...hopes that peace might not be far off and that Ho Chi Minh might finally be amenable to agreement, that discovery was not long in coming. Last week continued Communist attacks in South Viet Nam forced him to confront his first foreign-policy crisis as President. It not only undercut his attempts to reassure Europeans that the U.S. is not preoccupied with Southeast Asia, but jeopardized the climate of calm and unity that he had worked so hard to create...
WHEN STUDENTS occupy buildings, university administrators are required to make immediate decisions, in the hard light of public attention. Student militants make their demands "non-negotiable" to produce such a pressure situation. It is hoped that a circumstance of open confrontation will undercut the puppeteer control over college affairs to which administrators are accustomed. Such tactics often make it difficult for administrators to obscure the real meaning of protest issues by a calculated camouflage...
...study, for example, points out that despite statistics showing dramatic progress in medical care over the past decade, the amount of time the average American can expect, to spend in a sickbed or an institution has remained static. Illnesses stemming mainly from cigarettes, alcohol and a rich diet have undercut the advance...
...regularly and has been regularly forced to sell marks to maintain the parity of four marks to the dollar. The mark is certainly under-valued, out the Kiesinger government is understandably reluctant to revalue upwards. To do so would make German goods more expensive on the world market and undercut the prosperity West Germans have been enjoying for the past two years--and it would do so just before an election...
...this opportunity with pedantic and sluggish guitar work and a generally uninspired musical conception, though Ringo tries hard. As a result the song falls flatter than it might have; particularly so because the shock value of the first line--"Why don't we do it in the road?"--is undercut by the second line which goes "No one will be watching...