Word: undercutting
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...Besides promoting market reforms, the White House also sees the FTAA as a shield against the growing encroachment of China and the European Union into Latin America. Chavez has made no secret of his desire to undercut U.S. hegemony in the region by forging a new Latin American economic and political integration. Oil may be his chosen weapon to achieve that goal: Venezuela, which holds the hemisphere's largest oil reserves and which supplies almost 15% of the U.S. needs, is forming regional energy partnerships that offer cash- and fuel-strapped neighbors cheaper access to Venezuelan...
Just as dangerous as students’ self-censorship is the direct censorship of the Harvard administration itself. Administrators have gone to great lengths to regulate political activity on campus and have shown their readiness to undercut students’ free speech rights when they aren’t big fans of the content of that speech...
What's more, the Vulcans played for keeps. The indictment alleges that Libby sought to find out all he could about an Administration critic named Joe Wilson, then leaked the identity of Wilson's wife to several reporters to undercut the validity of Wilson's criticism, and then lied about his actions in his grand jury testimony. If convicted, lawyers say, Libby could face up to five years in prison. Fitzgerald's theory of the case can be broken into three parts...
...severance packages--were canceled. The retirees, generally well educated and financially savvy, organized to try to win back some of what they had lost by petitioning bankruptcy court, which would decide how to divide the company's assets among creditors. To no avail: Polaroid's management had already undercut the employees' effort. Rather than file for bankruptcy in Boston, near the corporate offices, the company took its petition to Wilmington, Del., and a bankruptcy court that had developed a reputation for favoring corporate managers. There, Polaroid's management contended that the company was in terrible financial shape and that...
...hermetically sealed Board,” writes Silvia in an e-mail. “The Board names its own successors. The alumni have no vote. There are no faculty or student representatives on the Board. This absence of accountability and the failure to serve the University well have undercut the credibility of the Board among students and faculty...