Word: undercutting
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...treaties contained provisions for reducing emissions of global warming gases and protecting endangered species. In their original form, these provisions would have undercut American patent laws and further restricted the development of industry and technology, making America even less able to compete in the world market. Moreover, Bush objected to provisions requiring America to donate billions of dollars to aid Third World countries in developing environmentally safe technology...
...referendum not to ratify the treaty of Maastricht, a landmark agreement that pledges the Community to monetary as well as political union by the end of the century. Coming amid a Continent-wide recession and with a bloody conflict still raging in Yugoslavia, the stunning no vote also undercut the unity that could allow the Eurocrats in Brussels to play a more important role in the new world order and the peaceful evolution of Europe after the demise of communism...
...case have also undercut some people's confidence in the regulatory bureaucracy's ability to handle allegations of sexual abuse...
...court's majority, joined by Thomas, ruled against Presley on the ground that even though the resolution had undercut Presley's authority as a commissioner, it had no direct impact on voting procedures. The decision drew a stinging dissent from Justice John Paul Stevens, who pointed out that Section 5 of the Voting Rights Act had been adopted specifically because "recalcitrant white majorities could be expected to devise new stratagems to maintain their political power if not closely scrutinized." The court's narrow interpretation of the law, says Lani Guinier, a professor at the University of Pennsylvania law school, could...
...other carriers immediately undercut your prices, and now a bloody fare war is under way. How can you maintain your new fare structure in the midst of a price...