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This elitism could backfire against the movement, just as affirmative action's elitism undermined it.
That report, says the Times , prompted a criminal investigation of the companies, which was undermined this year when Clinton approved Loral's export to China of information about guidance systems.
Other nation products--its purported AIDS cure, for instance--have undermined their claim that black businesses are less exploitative than white ones.
As if to underscore the unhelpful comparison with Tsongas , the Bradley campaign has been running 30-second TV ads in which Niki Tsongas, Paul's widow, says that Bradley is falling prey to the kind of smear that undermined her husband in 1992.
They undermined the pretension of King George III to rule under the divine right of kings.