Word: undercutting
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...dropped from $12 to around $9 in the first year of the partnership. By 1996 the Australians had had enough. Argyle would try to sell directly to Indian manufacturers through a Bombay office. The cartel tried a power play: it dumped $400 million of cheap rough into India to undercut the price of Argyle's diamonds...
...commission to investigate 9/11. Then you directly question the authenticity of their suffering, saying they are "reveling in their status as celebrities ? I've never seen people enjoying their husbands' death so much." You also call them various names - "harpies," "witches" - which is not only rude but seems to undercut your argument that they are off-limits to public debate. Why couldn't you offer your (already provocative) point that some "9/11 victims turned themselves into the arbiters of what anyone could say about 9/11" without the name-calling...
...Palestinian Authority in Gaza. To achieve that, they need to make their own conflict with Hamas look like a conflict between Fatah as a whole and Hamas." Disorder serves their aims, but more worryingly, says the official, Abbas may believe disorder serves his aims as well, because it could undercut Hamas' assertions that it can establish order and weaken their standing...
...feature of this century's globalization is that it is fast dividing the world into front-yard and backyard countries. To survive in the new world, huge populations living in the second category are being forced to take newly outsourced jobs that are at odds with their culture and undercut their self-esteem. The anger of people whose countries have only superficially benefited from globalization is rising. Jamal A. Khan Islamabad...
...feature of this century's globalization is that it is fast dividing the world into front-yard and backyard countries. To survive in the new world, huge populations living in the second category are being forced to take newly outsourced jobs that are at odds with their culture and undercut their self-esteem. The anger of people whose countries have only superficially benefited from globalization is rising. Jamal A. Khan Islamabad