Word: undercutting
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...that magnanimous message has been undercut by reports of rebels killing the Hutu as they flee the country. In the huge camps of northwestern Tanzania, a number of refugees are telling stories of massacres that they claim are committed by the R.P.F. Those tales are difficult to confirm -- and the rebels argue that they have been planted by militia in the camps as a way of deflecting blame from their own misdeeds -- but the effect is the same. The Tutsi have a long way to go before convincing all Hutu that their intentions are genuine and that the cycle...
...sanction that would most undercut the Kim regime is also the most provocative: an oil embargo. North Korea imports almost 75% of its petroleum products from China. If oil were cut off, the army would stop running. But China frowns on sanctions of any sort, and would hardly agree to halt the petroleum flow. Even if Beijing ordered a cutoff, Chinese businessmen along the long border are doing such a profitable business with North Korea that they might be inclined to ignore the embargo order...
...Harvard's trying to participate in a national debate on universal coverage," Childs says, "and at the same time is trying to undercut benefits here...
...then, just as suddenly as this bubbly abberation landed in Cambridge, the spell was broken. "OK" was promoted by a prime-time television commercial blitz. Is this low key? Would Douglas Coupland approve? Doesn't this undercut the whole idea of Generation X Cola...
Apple's base price for the new machines far undercut those of typical workstations. Thus, the Power Mac offers an unmatched price-performance package for intensive, scientific applications...