Word: undercutting
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...What concerns me primarily is not the patent and deliberate effort of a State Department subordinate to undercut the Secretary of State and sabotage his policy. What is of far greater concern is the apparent assumption on the part of those who put out the story that the weight of the mail rather than the weight of the evidence should be the controlling factor in determining American foreign policy...
What Helen Knowland did not know was that Author Kamp, a Westport, Conn. crackpot, is a longtime espouser of fascist causes, is well-versed in the techniques of antiSemitism, tried to undercut President Eisenhower's 1952 campaign by picturing prominent Jews who supported...
...settlement comes, the crucial test will be whether General Motors and Chrysler, which have presented a united front with Ford during bargaining, will also present a united front during a strike. Talk was that they might trim production, or shut down, in sympathy with Ford, undercut Reuther's whipsaw tactics. Following a poor year that saw G.M.'s Chevy alone outsell all Ford cars, Ford could not afford to stand idle while competitors were producing. But the U.A.W. could not long afford a joint showdown by the Big Three. The union might be faced with $12 million...
...Dilemma. Confronted with that cry, Eisenhower & Co. had to find an answer that did not say yes and did not say no. To say yes would be to undercut the United Nations, upset U.S. efforts to ease the Lebanon crisis by getting U.N. forces to replace U.S. troops. To say no would be to invite-unnecessarily-the duckings of the neutralist world and-more important-to strain the home-front political position of that valuable ally, Britain's Prime Minister Harold Macmillan, already under considerable to-the-summit pressure from Laborites. In talks with Dulles, Britain's Foreign...
...Association members such as Pan American. Panama's Aerovias flies from Panama to Miami for $55, v. the standard $94-and serves Scotch highballs on the house. Last week, grimly preparing to meet the competition, Panagra got set to introduce an excursion fare of its own that will undercut I.A.T.A. rates by 30%.* On the Cheap. Latin American airlines make rate-cutting work by an assortment of economies. Many fly aerial jitneys, such as war-surplus C-46s converted from U.S. Air Force freighters into lumbering passenger planes. Chile's thriving Cinta line paints its four-engined airliners...