Word: undercuttings
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...evidence that Gibbs or any other top-level Obama campaign adviser was meeting behind closed doors with House or Senate members. And having Davis - a former lobbyist who is already under the microscope because of his firm's previous work for Freddie Mac - meeting with House members could undercut McCain's stance as an honest broker, especially considering he attacked Obama Friday for playing politics with the bailout negotiations...
Obama's aides are sensitive about his brand; they don't want to undercut his claim to represent a new kind of politics. That's why they don't use the word Republican in ads; they think voters are tired of partisan attacks. And that's why they initially asked Democratic groups not to air any independent ads on Obama's behalf; they wanted to control the brand themselves. But the Service Employees International Union recently aired an anti-McCain ad, and other groups are poised to follow suit. Earlier polls had produced "reckless overconfidence on the part...
...JUST SAYING NO Although the study may now undercut the arguments of DTCA opponents who have long claimed that direct advertising leads to drug misuse by impressionable patients—as prescriptions remain unaffected by the advertisements, both Soumerai and Law said that the costly practice should be banned...
...Negative Space, first published in 1971 and reissued in expanded form in 1998. It's essential for anyone who has ever been to a movie or read a word of English. You'll learn how films should be seen, and how the language can be twisted, refined, expanded, improved, undercut, remade. (The frustrating news is that Negative Space represents only a small fraction of the Farber canon. The exhilarating news is that Robert Polito, one of the best of many writers on Manny, is preparing a multivolume set of the complete criticism, to be published by Harvard University Press...
...MILF's apparent inability to rein in its local commanders could also seriously undercut any efforts to return to the negotiating table. On Aug. 21, President Arroyo announced that the government would no longer negotiate with armed rebel groups - a major departure from the policy of engagement that led to the Aug. 4 accord with the MILF. "These recent developments in the south have led to a change in the basic premise of our peace efforts," she said during a speech Thursday. "The focus of our talks shall shift from the armed groups to the communities...