Word: undercutting
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...popular new service does not always undercut production profits; it often creates a market for a new product. The hand laundry is giving way to the self-service laundromats. In four years the number of laundromats has jumped from 4.000 to 25,000. Of 2,900,000 washing machines produced by the industry last year, some 10% were made for self-service stores. The next step may well be dry-cleanomats -and a new market for hard goods. Norge has brought out a coin-operated dry cleaner that will clean eight pounds of clothes...
...Lonely Visitor. Khrushchev's grandstanding offer, if meant to be taken seriously, casually undercut his dictum-reiterated only last week in his letter to Macmillan-that he would never again sit down at a conference table with Dwight Eisenhower. At such a spectacular get-together of chiefs of state, Russia might find it easier than in a more professional Disarmament Commission session to avoid explaining why the self-styled champions of peace had stalked out of the ten-nation Geneva disarmament talks last June. And if the Disarmament Commission is prevented from meeting, it is prevented from urging...
...national issues. The nation and the party, said Rockefeller, cannot march "to meet the future with a banner aloft whose only emblem is a question mark." Many a cynic inferred that Rockefeller, eying the 1964 presidential nomination, wanted Nixon to lose in 1960. and was deliberately trying to undercut him. But Nixon took a soft-answer tone, defended Rockefeller's right to voice his disagreements with the Ad ministration, issued a soothing call for party unity. He also publicly promised that Rockefeller's "oft-expressed desire that he not be drafted as a candidate for Vice President will be respected...
Johnson showed particular moderation toward Jack Kennedy, never mentioned him by name in his 2,000-word statement announcing his candidacy. Later on, replying to questions, Johnson undercut the charge, leveled by his backers, that Kennedy is a sick man, suffering from Addison's disease. "Senator Kennedy," said Johnson, "has established beyond the peradventure of a doubt by traveling in every state of this union that he doesn't have any health problem...
...that while there were many points of similarity between the Greek and Roman civilizations, few of these points are mirrored in our time. In particular, since we do not live in a slave society, one of the main characters, a slave taking advantage of his masters absence, is undercut by the colloquiality. But more important than this is that it is jarring to hear a tunic clad actor say, "P.U., you stink...