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The link between womb conditions and adult health undermines studies that suggest disease has genetic roots.
Though most politicians say such measures benefit the majority, and help speed bills through the House and Senate, critics feel that earmarking undermines the executive branch: By the time administrators get ahold of discretionary funds, most of the money has already been allocated, rendering the administrators nearly powerless.
This undermines a knowledge-based process for making product development decisions.
Davis surveys disaster stories set in Los Angeles, but he's an insecure literary critic, and his emphasis on the fairy tale aspect of natural disaster undermines the facts that have gone before.
The helplessness of Lucia in this fantasy, and the idea of "Bacchus ravisht by his tree," may make us uneasy on feminist grounds; but the corrective reality of the last line--the physical fact of the helpless erection--corrects and undermines the imagination's unreal fantasy of domination.