Word: undercutting
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...Simpson is scheduled to be deposed by lawyers for the families of Nicole Brown Simpson and Ronald Goldman, who are seeking civil damages from him. The deposition begins Monday and may take several days. Simpson, says a source, is worried that leaks from the deposition may undercut interest in his new video, for which he received $1 million upfront. Angry that "these white folks ain't gonna let me do anything" to make the kind of money he used to, he is reaching out for black support. Later in the week O.J. is supposed to submit to a cable...
...injustice of the trial has come under attack by the U.S. State Department, human-rights organizations, Berenson's lawyers and her family's legal adviser, former U.S. Attorney General Ramsey Clark. Yet Berenson herself may have undercut her defenders at a defiant press conference three days before the sentencing. Presented in manacles and shackles, she not only admitted being affiliated with the MRTA, a serious crime, but naively defended the group as nonviolent despite its record of bombings, bank robberies and kidnappings dating back to 1984. "If it is a crime to worry about the inhuman conditions in which...
...Pacific forces had to accept early retirement when he observed that the servicemen could have hired a prostitute for the cost of the rental car in which they purportedly committed the crime. But officials on both sides have been stressing the importance of healthy ties overall to undercut the disruptive power of individual issues, and it seems to be working...
...controlling, but rather slimy and pretentious. When he commands Hamlet to "be as us in Denmark," White is less like a cool, calculating usurper and more like a glib James Spader. He's irreverent and funny, but the eloquence of his "o, my offence is rank" speech is undercut by the flippancy of the rest of his portrayal...
...temperature in this hothouse environment. On Wednesday morning, even before delivering a pep talk to the three Presidents at the plenary session, Christopher visited the private quarters of each to chide them about actions their countries might take that could derail the talks. He warned Tudjman not to undercut Bosnia's Croat-Muslim federation and told him point-blank to knock off the brinkmanship over eastern Slavonia, the hotly contested sliver of Croatia still controlled by rebel Serbs. The Secretary instructed Izetbegovic to keep his distance from the media and told Milosevic that his failure to do anything about ongoing...