Word: undercutting
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...military rulers of the Dominican Republic have already begun to show weakness and fear; the United States has only commenced the powerful moves it can take to undercut the regime's support. It seems possible that a coordinated OAS effort to reinstate the Dominican Republic's elected regime might well succeed...
Secret Rebates. With too much steel to sell at home, the world's steelmen have turned to pushing steel exports, often at slashed prices. The Swedes have undercut the Germans by $9 a ton in Germany; the Japanese have moved heavily into the U.S. West Coast market with cheaper prices than U.S. firms in almost all steel products. At one ridiculous point, the British undersold the Belgians in Belgium-while the Belgians were underselling the British in Britain. Within the gentlemanly European Coal and Steel Community, where competition is supposedly regulated, secret rebates are given, and many steel firms...
...opposition: "We consider Communism opposition enough in wartime, but we will have open declared opposition as soon as peacetime allows." The trouble is that Diem rules not so much by firmness as by confusion; deliberate disorganization is his way of keeping possible enemies off balance. Cabinet ministers are undercut by a system of "superior subordinates." who actually outrank their nominal bosses because they get orders direct from the palace. But there is serious doubt whether any of this would change after a coup...
...dragged his feet in implementing these concessions. Many Vietnamese Buddhists, says Nhu, "have become fanatic, lost their common sense, and are ready to follow anyone who knows how to exploit them under the banner of religion." This was the kind of dogged anti-Buddhist attitude that has dangerously undercut government support. Already one general has resigned his field command in protest over government bungling of the Buddhist issue...
...land of spectacular volcanoes, but little industry to support its 2,200,000 people, Michoacán has long been the stronghold of Lazaro Cardenas, 68, the fiery far leftist who nationalized foreign oil companies as Mexico's President from 1934 to 1940. Attempting to undercut Cardenas' control, the country's dominant P.R.I, party installed an anti-Communist as state Governor last June. But many lesser officials are Cardenas supporters and strongly proCommunist. Why not? The Russians have been busy in Michoacán for years, and their influence spreads from back-country schoolhouses, where maps...