Word: undercutting
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...practitioner of power politics, knew this well. During the four years that he negotiated America's exit from Vietnam, he regularly resisted those people -- ranging from Defense Secretary Melvin Laird to the doves in the Senate -- who wanted to speed up troop withdrawals and, in Kissinger's view, undercut U.S. leverage at the Paris peace talks. And after the peace accord was signed in January 1973, he repeatedly advocated military pressure to force the communists to comply with the bargain...
...past the Bush team had undercut its attacks on Clinton's draft record by couching them in ridicule and bombast. Under Baker's orders, Teeter asked campaign counsel Bobby Burchfield to pull together the record in a clear, undramatic fashion and let the public judge. Burchfield turned out a lengthy, side-by-side comparison of Clinton's comments over the past year that fueled numerous news reports. "Basically," says Burchfield, "this is a situation where the histrionics could very easily get in the way of the message we're trying to put out, which is look at what...
...jury to convict on even one of the nine counts George is charged with, Walsh is consulting top legal eagles on whether to proceed. He's already feeling the heat from George supporters attacking the idea of another wasteful million-dollar trial. Besides, a second unsuccessful trial could undercut his last major effort, the trial of former Defense Secretary Caspar Weinberger, which begins...
Fear that compromise is a slippery slope causes Congressional supporters of the Freedom of Choice Act to dig in their heels and insist that permitting any restrictions undercut the legitimacy of the right to choose...
There are things the U.S. and the West could do to undercut anti-Western resentment. The best thing right away would be for Congress to pass the Freedom Support act, which will help ease Russia's transition to a market economy. Next, Americans should keep encouraging Russians, as they emerge from Sovietism, that a system of political accountability is better than any dictatorship; that private property is always a better hedge against poverty than collectivist social engineering; and that Russia's struggle to cleanse itself of communism is as commendable as Germany's exorcism of Nazism after World...