Word: undercutting
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...Gore's from an administration that's made its living square in the political center. And there's presidential precedent: Bill Clinton's current secretary of defense, Bill Cohen, is a moderate Republican. Perhaps Gore should pre-emptively announce that he'd name Powell as State majordomo, and thereby undercut any advantage that Bush is seeking...
...drawbacks relating to variable annuities--retirement tools that are a cross between a mutual fund and an insurance policy. Much of the increased popularity of these annuities is due to bonuses offered by companies seeking to lure investors unfamiliar with the instruments. The SEC maintains the bonuses are often undercut by hidden, higher withdrawal fees...
...Student interest also became more fractured, in a way that undercut the usefulness of the House. In the 1950s, the College was home to about 60 student groups. Today that figure is in the neighborhood of 300. And as students had less time for their Houses, so did masters. Leading scholars found it more and more difficult to set aside professional advancement in order to attend House plays, although some notable exceptions occurred...
Another challenge to America is a military one. Beijing has started a significant expansion of those parts of its military that will undercut the American presence in Asia unless we spend large sums to counter it. China is turning out hundreds of missiles that threaten the American bases on which U.S. military power is founded. With these bases under threat, our military capacity to be a player in Asia drops sharply. The U.S. may have a "global" military that can't play in the most important part of the world...
...there's one major flaw in the production and his name is Brecht. For what would a musical from the mind of a Harvard student be without a dash of the self-aware, of meta-theater? According to the program notes, the show was originally intended to (nudge-nudge) "undercut itself and criticize its own genre, a film-noir that constantly threatens to take a sharp left at the road to reality." There is an incessant riffing on the stereotypes of "good guy" and "bad guy" and on the formulaic nature of film-noir movies in general. Such an idea...