Word: undercutting
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...Sweet Stuff spokesperson claimed that its prices will undercut the new store's and that its established client base will remain loyal. The Holyoke Center store sells the original Bailey's Fudge Truffle as well as 300 different types of candy. The spokesperson also pointed to an elegant color coordinated display as one of the store's distinctive features...
...frequently, spectacularly, preposterously. Stallone and Snipes both play this nonsense tongue-in-cheekily. Sandra Bullock has an attractive naivete as a scholarly policewoman who hangs out with Sly. But ultimately the script's often sharp social satire is drowned out by the noise and confusion. It is also undercut by casting virtually all the psychopathically murderous criminals as minority-group members. A little political correctness in that matter would have prevented this movie from playing right into the dismissive hands of the forces it most wants to criticize...
...perdition that could await moral miscreants and outlines a tightening up of his earthly ranks. The encyclical directs all theologians to display "a loyal assent, both internal and external," as they discuss morals. And he rails against the "carefully orchestrated protests and polemics carried on in the media" that undercut church policies...
...Once you know a lot about something, don't let anyone undercut your expertise," said Rose E. Frisch, associate professor emeritus at the School of Public Health, said at yesterday's health and science panel...
Interior Secretary Bruce Babbitt announced that the Administration would raise the fees for ranchers who graze livestock on federal land. Last February Clinton undercut Babbitt by trading away a similar increase to gain the support of several Western Senators for his budget. The fees will now rise from $1.86 to $4.28 per head of cattle, still below the $5 to $15 charged on private land. Fee hikes may also loom on other federal lands...