Word: undercutting
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...Gates testimony, all 20 hours of it, can be released to the public. Some eight hours have been played in court already, and Gates's shockingly unhelpful performance hasn't done Microsoft any favors. Now we'll see the rest, and Redmond isn't pleased. The reason: it could undercut the Microsoft argument that the government has been taking Gates' testimony out of context...
...Democrats, meanwhile, were aware that if Clinton could not get a fair trial in a G.O.P.-controlled Senate, it would be in part because of what the Democrats did to Robert Bork and John Tower, and to the methods the Democratic majority had long used to undercut Republican administrations. "If we can't do this," an off-message Democratic Senator said Thursday night, "we're all to blame." And so they agreed to try one last time to pull back from the brink...
...meeting all demonstrated need, the University hopes it can undercut competitive offers at other schools...
...Young scientist whose experiment undercut the widely practiced medical treatment known as therapeutic touch...
...freedoms in China. Dissidents face not only the formidable arm of the Chinese legal system, but also public indifference as well. "The Chinese public largely shares the government's fundamental belief that security and stability are more important than liberties," says Dowell. "The fear is that social instability will undercut economic progress." Trials in China are sounding boards. "Arrested persons are assumed to be guilty," says Dowell. "And the trial is merely a period to see if anyone raises objections." Some 200 protesters did show up to protest Wang's trial -- but that's in a population of one billion...