Word: undercutting
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...Harley-Davidson Club on the Strip, dancing with the commoners until the wee hours. To see for yourself, go to ZDNet's PC Week Online zdnet.com/pcweek for a video playback of the Microsoft chairman's floor technique. All in all, it was a fine way to undercut a nasty spate of bad p.r.--if this decade's Darth Vader can cut loose like a heedless frat boy, he can't be all bad, right? Especially with that...
...with Bill Clinton. Having already neutralized Republican attempts to make budget balancing and welfare reform into their signature triumphs, last week he plunked down among them on the IRS, an issue they had hoped to make their own in the '98 congressional elections. To do that required him to undercut his own Treasury Secretary. Robert Rubin insisted he would never accept an IRS reform bill so long as it imposed on the agency an oversight board from the private sector. Rubin went on insisting right up to the day last week when he more or less said, "Oops! Never mind...
...State Department Report on Human Rights found that through this slave labor, government-owned Chinese industries are able to undercut almost any foreign manufacturer. In addition, they consistently ignore the copyrights binding on their pirated goods produced by the slave labor of Chinese laogai system...
...piper for her own sales pitch of four years ago. She won her first campaign for Governor by bashing incumbent Jim Florio for his tax hikes and pledging that she would reverse the trend. While income taxes were cut, her failure to control property taxes and auto insurance rates undercut her credibility. As any consumer knows, cheaper peanut butter is no bargain if jelly and bread still cost a fortune...
...much at stake as the jobs across the Potomac River. The men who actually work at the face of the mine (as opposed to some maintenance and support workers on the "outside") receive wages and benefits comparable to those of Potomac's union men. But Mettiki was able to undercut the union mine's costs by contracting out some labor and by hiring trucks from Savage Industries to haul the coal. That Utah-based company, for its own part, had been eager to expand in the east and, according to Andrew Blumenfeld, who studies coal contracts for the energy research...