Word: undercutting
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...United States is dead last among industrialized nations in foreign aid expenditure as a percentage of GNP (0.14 percent). By committing to a serious development assistance program, we could substantially undercut the wellsprings of terrorism. Economic growth would help more of the world’s poor afford AIDS vaccines (even the generic ones cost over $100 a year) and could prevent the nightmare scenario of millions of orphans ripe for recruitment by militants. Development would also enable weak states—debilitated by meager tax revenues, a dearth of human capital and rampant corruption—to improve their...
...four or five outside groups launched probes of--and proposed changes to--FBI and CIA activities after 9/11, the bureau and the agency played a shrewd, wait-'em-out game, allowing small changes proposed by outsiders but drawing a hidden "line of death" at anything dramatic, especially if it undercut their roles, their missions and, most of all, their budgets...
...Iraq’s missing WMDs. This press conference, only the third of his presidency, showed Americans a chief executive trying desperately to do damage control. But unanswered questions about WMDs and shifting justifications for the Iraq war, as well as the President’s general evasiveness, undercut the moral clarity and responsibility of a man Americans once chuckled at good-naturedly. By refusing to accept the slightest blame, or answer the most straightforward questions about his actions, President Bush has become a parody of himself...
...Iraq’s missing WMDs. This press conference, only the third of his presdency, showed Americans a chief executive trying desperately to do damage control. But unanswered questions about WMDs and shifting justifications for the Iraq war, as well as the President’s general evasiveness, undercut the moral clarity and responsibility of a man Americans once chuckled at good-naturedly. By refusing to accept the slightest blame, or answer the most straightforward questions about his actions, President Bush has become a parody of himself...
Infraction-free for the entirety of the third period, Maine undercut the Crimson’s primary point of attack and never looked back...