Word: undercutting
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...whole, the film is an excellent idea with a presentation that leaves a great deal of room for improvement. Although it is predictable throughout, the movie does supply some moments of excitement, but they are lessened by Connery and Capshaw's lethargy. The excitement is also undercut by the movie's rush to reach the last scene, which turns out to be disapointing anyway. The characters should be in a rush, but the writer and director should spend as much time as it takes...
...region's political leaders are publicly displaying their faith in the process, but they know their best efforts can be undercut at any time by another incident like the bombing that killed 21 Israelis last month. After reading the Cairo summit's communique last week, a West Bank member of the radical Islamic Jihad warned, ``We are the ones who decide when to attack Israeli targets--not Arafat, not Rabin, not Hussein, not Mubarak.'' Unfortunately, that is all too true...
...researchers believe they can ease such concerns. Already, the Human Genome Diversity Project is working with a U.N. organization to establish some guidelines. Cavalli-Sforza stresses that his mission is not just scientific but humanitarian as well. The study's ultimate aim, he says, is to "undercut conventional notions of race" that cause discrimination. It is a goal that he hopes will resonate among indigenous peoples who have long struggled for the same...
...clear the air. Reason: the main sources of pollution are millions of small factory boilers and household stoves burning unwashed coal. While the government hopes that as much as half the urban population can eventually be supplied with clean natural gas for cooking, rising prices and short supplies may undercut that effort...
...Hawks' demonstration inflamed Arafat's opponents in Gaza. "This show of muscle was a big mistake," said Mansour Shawa, president of the charitable Benevolent Society for the Gaza Strip. "It just provoked a lot of people." By aligning himself with a factional militia, critics said, the chairman had undercut his claim to be a national leader. "He is going back to acting like the head of a gang," said Ghazi Abu Jayyab, an activist in the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine. Bloody Friday also tainted the image of the Authority's 9,000-member Gaza Strip security force...