Word: undercutting
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...than $500 million in foreign exchange reserves socked away, spurred a healthy 6% annual rise in the G.N.P. When Communist guerrillas stepped up their campaign of subversion in the scrubby, impoverished northeast provinces, Sarit set in motion a crash $300 million program of medical, economic and educational development that undercut the Red threat. Though his rule was absolute, he always knelt before Thailand's King Bhumibol Adulyadej, encouraged Thais to accept the King as head of state and symbol of national unity...
Germany's welfare program was launched by Bismarck, who wanted to undercut the Socialists; it was continued by Hitler. Old legislation usually stayed on the books while new measures were piled on. Konrad Adenauer continued to build the welfare state, often adding benefits at election time. Since 1950, the cost of the social program has quadrupled to 12.5 billion dollars, creating what looms as the biggest headache in Erhard's administration...
That is precisely why the U.S. has been pressing its allies for more conventional forces. A sizable U.S. pullback would undercut that argument-and would greatly strengthen the Gaullist demand for an independent, national nuclear deterrent...
...brought their children-present and future. Nobody mentioned the medical contingencies that lay behind the course, but it was obvious: the women flew from the copilot's seat, rather than the pilot's seat on the left, where regular students are taught. But the instruction, designed to undercut feminine fears and build confidence that they could handle a plane, was simple and optimistic enough to make an oldtime pilot blush...
...fame will push the Review, or, indeed, whether it will survive at all. Whatever happens, there is nothing to match it. The New York Times Book Review cannot begin to offer the freshness and possibilities of the Review. Book Week, the Herald Tribune's new excursion into publishing, may undercut the Review financially but in no other sense do they compete. Anyone who cares at all about books should hope that this erratic little publication succeeds and gets better...