Word: undercutting
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...West searches for ways to stop nuclear proliferation. There is no obvious answer, and the Western dithering that has accompanied the rape of Bosnia does not inspire confidence that the international community will come up with a strong plan of action soon. The U.S. is juggling competing objectives that undercut its own commitment to non-proliferation -- the desire to improve relations with China or to secure Syria's cooperation in the Mideast peace talks -- and so far, Washington has not figured out how to galvanize its main allies around a tougher antiproliferation policy...
...failure of the BTU tax, Clinton is simply reaping what he has been sowing ever since he unveiled his economic plan in February. Clinton undercut his claim that all Americans would sacrifice equally. He granted a steady string of energy-tax exemptions to key lawmakers, special pleaders and important industries. Farmers won exemptions on diesel fuel for tractors. Majority Leader George Mitchell won an exemption for home heating oil, an important commodity in New England. Clinton himself agreed in an April telephone call (from a Congressman at a pay phone in Oklahoma) to change the way the tax would...
...role in developing a Bosnia plan, even though he had serious reservations about intervention. In meetings with Congress last week, Aspin and Powell left no doubt about the situation. Powell dominated the session, going into such detail on the military options, an attendee said, that he may have undercut the Administration's position by stating the drawbacks so clearly. Other White House advisers have been even more forcefully opposed to military intervention. One official believes the President finds himself in a corner "because he has no strong views of his own," and warns that if Clinton gives...
...mechanisms for dispute resolution are clearly inadequate. For international trade agreements to be meaningful, they must have workable enforcement mechanisms. In the absence of these mechanisms, countries resort to unilateral actions which undercut the trading system. There must be, in any reconstitution of the GATT and in subsequent rounds, provision for the formation and operation of dispute resolution panels, adoption of panel recommendations and generous provisions for substantive retaliation, if the panel's recommendations are ignored...
Instead, it has chosen to undercut serious and proper efforts undertaken by students and faculty to try to fix these problems...