Word: undercutting
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Such a Republican mutiny might prove fatal to the Souter nomination and to any number of wavering Senators. In a worst (or best) case scenario, such a fiasco could significantly undercut Bush's support, which is already descending from its once stratospheric heights...
...high tariffs, domestic price supports and export subsidies used by many nations, including the entire Group of Seven, to protect their farmers from more efficient foreign competitors. Experts estimate that such protectionist measures cost the developed world's consumers and taxpayers some $245 billion a year. They also undercut the ability of poor countries to export their agricultural products. George Bush asked his summit partners to phase out government support for farm exports (not that Bush is sure he could sell such sacrifices to farm-bloc legislators in his own Congress). But the European nations and Japan, whose rice farmers...
...both Democrats and Republicans are rushing to align themselves with reform proposals. But the scramble is unlikely to translate into a real overhaul. While both parties are sanctimoniously mouthing the language of reform, their real objective is to undercut their opponent's fund-raising advantages while protecting their own. Since Republicans raise more money from private contributors, they resist spending limits on congressional campaigns. Because Democrats get more cash from political-action committees, they oppose G.O.P. efforts to abolish PACs...
...Alabama Democrat tried to undercut the EPA's power to enforce the Clean Air Act, but now he touts his environmental efforts and plans an Earth Day photo op at the state's Cahaba River cleanup...
...back into the cold war." The process of arms reduction would probably halt, and perhaps reverse. The democratization of Eastern Europe would be imperiled, as would prospects for a smooth unification of the Germanys. A return to superpower tensions would also bolster the influence of conservatives in Moscow and undercut Gorbachev's attempts to remake Soviet society...