Word: undercutting
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...further undercut claims by the lending industry that it needs get-tough legislation, 82 professors at 66 law schools, from Harvard to UCLA, last September signed a letter itemizing the consequences the proposed bankruptcy legislation would have on those in need of financial relief. It was sent to every U.S. Senator...
...price of huge unemployment--over half the nation's working-age population lacks a steady job. Toledo, a shoe shiner who later trained as an economist at Harvard, has been able to gain popular support by focusing on the nation's impoverished masses. Such sanctions would seriously undercut Fujimori's already dwindling support base...
...same-sex couples the "common benefits and protections" that they deserve under the law. This distinction between the civil benefits of marriage and its religious or moral standing is the most compelling argument in favor of domestic partnership laws in response to conservatives' fears traditional marriage will be undercut...
...cost of tuition has an intense personal impact on individual families," said Sen. Joseph Lieberman (D-Conn.), the ranking Democrat on the committee. "But if college becomes a luxury that an increasing percentage of the population cannot afford, the economic divide between the have and the have-nots could undercut the American dream and stunt the nation's economic growth...
...West's oeuvre, with everything from a short story to television interviews to commentrary on race, politics, literature, music and sexuality. It is a book about self-discovery, and West's efforts to come to terms with himself and the world he lives in. This lofty aim is often undercut by what can be interpreted as grandiose, self serving comments, but one would find it hard to fault West or the book for his unceasing vigilance in attempting to understand himself and his surroundings. What one finds in the Reader is a deeply committed philosopher, questing after what he considers...