81.   The deficit is undermining efforts to keep its currency, the real, as the linchpin of an anti-inflation program.

82.   The environmentalists wonder why the state would undermine its efforts to reduce pollution by giving away the credits it earned.

83.   The gridlock also is undermining efforts by its pioneers, scientists and engineers, to conduct high-level research.

84.   The government has argued that opening the hearings could undermine its efforts to prevent attacks.

85.   The government is resisting, saying to do so would undermine its efforts to recruit the informants necessary to making cases against underworld figures.

86.   The findings dismayed some diabetes specialists, who worried that they might undermine efforts to control Type II diabetes.

87.   The illness will undermine his efforts to preserve his political influence and the possibility that he will run for re-election in June.

88.   The real question for Bush is what the victory will cost him and whether it will undermine his efforts to present himself as a unifier.

89.   The proposals on radiation could seriously undermine Chinese efforts to rival European and American mobile phone manufacturers and operators.

90.   The United States vacillated in Bosnia, undermining efforts to broker compromise, giving false hope to Muslims, and overlooking ethnic cleansing in Croatia.