Word: downplay
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Senator John Tower of Texas, chairman of the Armed Services Committee, also wanted to keep the controversial analyst under wraps. But Grassley persuaded his fellow Senators to schedule a hearing; they also threatened to subpoena Spinney if the Pentagon refused to let him appear. Tower tried to downplay the appearance by setting it for late Friday afternoon. He also wanted to hold it in a small committee room and ban television cameras. That way he hoped to confine daily press coverage to the lightly read Saturday newspapers. But pressure from other Senators forced Tower to move the session into...
...romanticized and unhistorical references to earlier outbursts of high emotion and demands for sweeping change. It is particularly ironic that some adults who have moved smoothly from the 1960s youth movement to Wall St. or Madison Ave. now scoff at the calm in the Yard. Both groups carelessly downplay the extraordinary influence of events such as the crusade against Southern racism and the threat of being drafted to fight in a secretively pursued foreign war. Forgotten are the significant academic reforms implemented since the late 1960s, such as forming Black and women's studies programs, giving more administrative power...
Although Administration officials tried to downplay the significance of the trip, a number of agreements were announced. Most important, the U.S. will lend Brazil $1.23 billion, at 8% annual interest for three months, to tide over the debt-burdened (nearly $90 billion in foreign lOUs) country until a $4.5 billion International Monetary Fund loan comes through next year...
Trying to downplay the White House's responsibility for such a dismal prospect, Feldstein and Treasury Secretary Donald Regan have argued repeatedly in recent weeks that the U.S. is plagued by a high rate of "structural unemployment," which cannot be cured by the Government's traditional pump-priming tactics of boosting spending or expanding the money supply. The term structural unemployment is a fuzzy concept that has been bandied about by economists for years, but has no clear-cut definition. Generally speaking, it refers to people out of work not as a result of a recession, but because...
...salary raises, they are first roughly calculated faculty-wide, and only then subjected to case-by-case adjustment. To explain this effort to downplay individual professors' merit and achievement. Harvard deans like to smile and say. "All our professors are stars...