Word: undercutting
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Last week the United Nations turned 50. And while New York celebrated its accomplishments, Washington continued to undercut its support for the U.N. Congress refuses to repay its $1.4 billion debt to the U.N. It points to the organization's wasteful spending and sluggishness as reasons to remove its support. However, the U.S. should not remove its support at this critical time as the U.N. tries to reform itself...
...acting, too, helps to disguise the plot Demi Moore plays her part with a determination and recklessness that would have done Hester Prynne proud. Gary Oldman would cut a more convincing figure as her passionate and inspirational lover, the Reverend Dimmesdale, if he weren't undercut by the melodramatic sermonizng thrust upon him by the script. And Robert Duvall steals the show as Demi's estranged pay chopathic husband, who has gone so native that the natives themselves decide they're scared...
...this spring to the right on gun control and his attack on Hollywood. He reminds the fervent budget cutters that back in 1985 he engineered the only across-the-board cut of federal programs (including a freeze on Social Security) that the Senate has ever passed-only to be undercut by Ronald Reagan. Last week Dole tried to push through one of his pet projects: easing regulations on business, a measure that is designed to appeal to conservative hard-liners. But when it comes to meat inspections and water-quality standards, his party is on the wrong side...
...interviews, the defense could not compel her to testify. McKinney's testimony seemed to contradict the detective's flat denial that he had ever used such slurs during the past ten years when he was under cross-examination by defense attorney F. Lee Bailey. The defense would like to undercut that testimony, saysTIME's James Willwerth. "What's really at stake here is playing the racial card. The defense theory that Mark Furman was part of some racist conspiracy in the police department was effectively blunted when Furman came through Bailey's examination. The defense is trying anything they...
...election will pursue policies which advance their own interests and hurt those of the opposition. And the small-government, tax-cutting Republican neophytes would betray their supporters if they did any favors for the "welfare bureaucracy" so often excoriated in their campaign ads. Yet when conservatives seek to undercut the very means of political competition itself--to systematically cut off their ideological opponents from access to advocacy--there is good reason for alarm. Bewildered by attacks on all sides, American liberals need to apprehend the broader import of Republican efforts to entrench themselves in power...