Word: undercutting
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...impression. Unlike such predecessors as Big Minh and Nguyen Khanh, the flamboyant, purple-scarfed aviator has been remarkably low key in his power plays. Last week Ky's cool tactics canceled a major threat to his country's stability. At a remove of 6,000 miles, Ky undercut and exiled his Deputy Premier and Defense Minister, Southern-born Lieut. General Nguyen...
...left-of-center opposition, led by Inönü, did its noisiest best to discredit him as a lackey of the U.S. For months the opposition man aged to block every government bill, since Demirel lacked a majority in the upper house of Parliament. Finally, the new Premier undercut Inönü by softening his stand against the East, wooed two independent Senators into his party, and won the full parliamentary majority that he had lacked at the start. Along the way, he also broadened his support among military men, including Turkish President Cevdet Sunay, a career army...
...year in office, President Ferdinand Marcos has leveled a two-pronged attack on the troublesome pockets of Huk rebellion that still persist in parts of central Luzon more than a decade after the collapse of the main Communist insurgency. One weapon is a social-reform program that aims to undercut the Huks by building schools and hospitals, repairing wells and roads, and providing land-improvement loans to farmers. The other is the cold steel and hot bullets of a 3,800-man military force under Colonel Rafael Ileto, 46, who was named last winter to hunt down the hard-core...
Ford believes in team-work, and his principal responsibility since becoming minority leader in 1965 has been to get Republicans in Congress playing on the same side of the ball. The Goldwater debacle undercut the party establishment, giving younger congressmen who had complained long and bitterly of their lack of influence in party councils an opportunity to change the leadership. On the argument that the party needed an appealing new image, they deposed bumbling Charlie Halleck of Indiana and elevated then 51-year-old Ford. But the victory was diluted only a few days later when the Republican congressmen ignored...
...people get you on any hate-Germany kick, either. You know how everybody hates the Nazis in this country? Well I'll tell you why. It's because they brought in the Reichmark which threatened to undercut the business of all the fat Jewish bankers in this country, that's why. And you know why Lincoln was killed? Because he was trying to bring in the green-back dollar, and the Jewish bankers wouldn't let him. The man who killed him, Booth, he was a member of the House of Warburg. The historians could find all this...