Word: undercutting
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...Which is what serious filmmakers do, especially in works shown at festival like this one. As a Cannes critic, I accept their right to undercut expectations; I hereby validate their modernist parking ticket. But there's enough of a movie kid left in me that I'd like to see this almost-great effort not go bust at the end, but climax in a great big bloody BOOM...
...still in their infancy. Another study in this week's NEJM points out that while the preventative vaccine works 98% of the time to protect girls not yet infected with HPV-16 and HPV-18, the vaccine is only 17% effective against cancer precursors overall. These findings could undercut the argument ensuing in more than 15 states to make the vaccine mandatory for young girls...
...than 40 inside of Massachusetts Hall) in 2001, Harvard finally admitted that it does have the ability and moral duty to pay its workers fairly and to forgo anti-union tactics. At the time, Harvard placed a moratorium on outsourcing until it could guarantee that its subcontractors would not undercut the working conditions of its unionized employees...
...Earlier this month, the "surge" was beginning visibly to work. Al-Qaeda fought back, with massive slaughter of civilians, whose purpose was in part to undercut support for the war against al-Qaeda on the home front. Harry Reid followed script...
...force him to. Indeed, even if they could, legislating military strategy would be imprudent. We have reached an impasse, and the options do not look good. On one hand, Congress could cut off funds for the war entirely, which would eventually force the withdrawal of troops, but would undercut soldiers in the field and make for a messy exit. On the other hand, we could all just keep our fingers crossed for a more amenable president to be elected to office next year. Escalating the domestic foreign policy disagreement, both houses of Congress have recently passed an emergency spending bill...