Word: undercutting
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...against bad news, but I want good news too," Willie said. He observed that news stories such as recent reports of lower Scholastic Aptitude Test scores serve to "undercut hope that is required for educational reform...
...Tehran government, which originally organized and subsidized Lebanon's Hizballah, had already been leaning westward, however grudgingly. President Hashemi Rafsanjani wants increased trade, especially from Europe, to help rebuild an economy destroyed by eight years of war with Iraq. By turning away from radicals abroad, he can also undercut his extremist domestic rival, Ali Akbar Mohtashemi, Hizballah's godfather...
Much of the material in these publications is interesting, and some of the criticism is justified. But the watchdogs frequently undercut their own credibility by their whininess, their grating tone of moral rectitude and % their compulsive nit-picking. A case can be made that people who write articles critiquing photo captions in the New York Times really ought to get out more...
...employees, the space station promises to employ 100,000 workers. This program is at the very essence of our nation's economic vitality. It's ) not about jobs so much as it is vision, daring, exploring. These are the things that made America great. Killing the station would undercut our leadership role in science and high technology. It would hurt our aerospace industry -- one of the few areas in which we still enjoy a favorable balance of trade. And it would put at risk our ability to make and maintain international commitments...
What the moderates need most for their resistance effort is money. Vestal's movement has set up a scheme to undercut the $137 million annual headquarters budget and siphon funds into moderate causes. But so far only 140 congregations have responded to the effort; their projected donations of $4 million this year hardly threaten the Baptist money machine. Whatever the long-term threat in Atlanta this week, fundamentalist president Chapman insists, "I feel very optimistic...