Word: undercutting
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Further growth may spring from the hobbling of foreign competitors. For 15 years Japanese banks have battled for market share in U.S. real estate and corporate lending. At times they have undercut U.S. banks to the point where the business became unprofitable. But the Japanese banks hold so many bad loans in Asia that they are scaling back dramatically in the U.S. European banks aren't faring much better. Both trends should boost profits for U.S. lenders...
...possibility is obliterated by the new murder mystery plot that takes over in the second half. Whatever credibility the script had up to that point is undermined by the oddity of the shift, making the movie a Quentin Tarantino imitation gone awry; the macabre violence and odd moralistic overtones undercut Grigoris' Robin Hood resonance. After a dramatic moral battle in which Tommy and Griorgis are at each other's throats in a good 10 minutes of suspense, the moment of moralizing in cut in favor of Kentucky Fried Chicken, where they end up discussing murder over a 12-piece chicken...
...asymmetries of the rights of Palestinians and Israeli Jews in the Middle East. The Wye Memorandum secures permanent Israeli control of at least 60 percent of the West Bank and limited Palestinian autonomy of at most 40 percent in the undefined future. Its stipulations regarding Israeli security severely undercut the human rights of native Palestinian inhabitants. Most fundamentally, like the Oslo Accords, it does not take into account essential components of the Palestinian-Israeli conflict...
...labelmonstrosities? Steve's answer--that sinceengineering's not an art, he's not prostitutinghimself, but rather extorting major labels withoutgiving a damn about the quality of the music hehappens to be recording--is relatively reasonable,but he's still intuitively branded a sell-out bymany. His position is somewhat undercut by hisdistinctive "engineering" style, which is perhapsthe most influential Albini legacy. Steve tries tomake it sound like the band is performing live inyour speakers, and he's quite good at this. Heusually mixes guitars and drums high and vocalslow. Music critics usually dub the sound "raw,"but this...
...world, striving after justice, are hopelessly naive. Toward the end of the movie, a Holocaust survivor spots Dussander, who, it turns out, killed his wife and his two daughters. The man hurries away and falls to his knees crying. The near-silent dignity of the man's role is undercut by the way the movie seems to want to characterize him. While Dussander, with a grey beard and wire-rimmed glasses, is a picture a masculine restraint, this man, with bald head and flabby features, sobbing hopelessly at the horror of it all, is portrayed as a mere child...