Word: undercutting
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...members) union kicked out of the A.F.L.-C.I.O.? He seems to be headed for just that despite his insistence that he wants to work his reforms within the parent organization. For in closed sessions with his constitution revision committee, Hoffa is solidifying his position with an attempt to undercut the powers of the Teamsters' four regional conference bosses, thus piling more power on the presidency...
...other countries; Poland became Catholic to avoid being gobbled up. When the pagan Polish ruler Mieszko I was attacked A.D. 963 by Saxon Warlord Count Wichman, Mieszko cannily guessed that this early German Drang nach Osten would disguise itself as a Christian missionary enterprise. To undercut this excuse, he married a Bohemian Catholic princess, took himself and country to the Church of Rome in 966. The office of primate, which in many countries degenerated into a mere courtesy title, remained in Poland (as in Hungary) a potent center of temporal power and political leverage. When the throne was vacant...
...oppose the anxious attempts of "righteous moralists" to undercut Harvard's responsibility for providing the opportunity and the risk proper to higher education...
...other factor that has retarded this liberalization of undergraduate studies is the rather unamenable attitude of many of the departments themselves. Perhaps the departments are a little suspicious of something new, which may be understandable, or perhaps they feel they are being undercut by the partial avoidance of the course system, which is understandable, but still deplorable. Courses are not only organized into departments for the good of the students, but are created for that purpose, and when a plan is devised that will educate certain students, but are created for that purpose, and when a plan is devised that...
...profits for Class I roads dropped 68% to $700 million. Since then, largely because of their race to modernize, the roads have stepped up earnings, last year wound up with a $1 billion profit. Says Southern Railway President Harry de Butts: "Fifteen years ago, when trucking grew up and undercut us, nothing was said. But now we are ready to fight back...