Word: downplay
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...similar common sense philosophy lies behind the tendency of large computer operation to downplay the location of their computer operations. "You'll never see a computer facility advertising itself. I've seen a lot that have been very low-key warehouse-type buildings and you walk in and see a beautiful ultra-modern computer at Tymeshare, a national timesharing computer network...
Others, however, downplay the damage. "It's competetive, but it dosn't hinder the science," Hunter says. "There maybe is some duplication of work, but you always find out what's going on within two or three months. It's amazing how scientists worry about precedent when it dosn't really make a difference in the long run," he adds...
...first, the Honecker regime tried to downplay the anti-German hysteria and even cautiously challenged Moscow with editorials in Neues Deutschland that supported a policy of detente with the West. During the past two weeks, however, the East Germans have begun to echo Moscow in accusing West Germany of "re-vanchism," the desire to restore the boundaries that existed before World War II. In Leipzig, students returning for the first day of school were asked to display pictures that they had drawn of tanks protecting their homeland from the West. Stories began to spread that Honecker would have to endure...
...Texas, where Government bailouts are unpopular, Mondale will downplay the selling points he used so well in the East, like his helping to rescue Chrysler from bankruptcy and advocating trade barriers to protect industry. Instead, say his aides, Mondale will preach "prairie populism" and stress that he worries about "real people, real jobs and real pocketbooks." He will particularly target large areas of poverty like the Rio Grande Valley, where unemployment...
Experts also downplay any major consequences of oil mergers on America's dependence on the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries. Says Walter Levy, a leading oil consultant: "OPEC in general benefits from larger markets for its oil. To the extent that Socal-Gulf and other mergers tend to erode the impetus for domestic exploration, OPEC will benefit-but only marginally...