Word: undercutting
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Burns's idea was to discredit Kelly; instead, he got Kelly hopping mad. Attacking the Governor for what he called "the big lie," the bluff country boy took to the backwoods to support Burns's city-boy opponent, Miami Mayor Robert King High, 42. Still trying to undercut Kelly in the outback, Burns then raised the race issue, warning that High would deliver the state into the hands of the "Negro bloc." He urged Florida to "follow the example of Alabama" in nominating a segregationist. Second mistake...
...gives the states and localities options about how they run and implement federal programs. Perhaps the best example is the $1.3 billion Elementary and Secondary Education Act, which Congress passed last year despite dire forecasts of the inevitable erosion of local control of U.S. education. Far from trying to undercut local educators, Washington has taken great pains to ensure that the functions of planning and decision making remain in their hands. Roughly $1 billion of the money goes to local boards of education to spend as they see fit on children of the poor, and millions more are aimed...
...Memphis office, Matthews keeps detailed files on property in every sizable U.S. city, looks with an especially sharp eye for anything "adjacent to the largest hotel in town." With few public rooms, small staff and relatively low capital investment, Downtowners can substantially undercut hotel room prices, thus siphon off an instant clientele. So far, the Downtowners have been keeping things hot for hotels mainly in smaller cities. As Vice President Ronald Kirkpatrick, 33, sees it, that is only the beginning. "We have been in training," he says. "Now we're big enough to take on New York and Chicago...
...hard to see how it could be anything else. The three commissioners appointed by the President, while ostensibly the heads of the government, have little real power. Not only are they forced into extreme caution by the need to propitiate their Congressional bosses; but they also can be undercut at any time by a department of the city government which appeals to the House or Senate District Committees over their heads. The Police Department, for instance, has a much more powerful voice on Capitol Hill than the D.C. Board of Commissioners. Add to all this the fact that the House...
Fearing that their own traditional 15% commission might be undercut, the National Association of Life Underwriters, speaking through Vice President Carney Smith, protests that the card plan has already "eroded the agents' market tremendously." To keep the card game from spreading, agents' groups have threatened such credit-offering chains as Sheraton Hotels and the May Co. with boycotts. They have also pushed anti-credit-card insurance bills through the legislatures in New Hampshire and Florida...