Word: downplay
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Rumors that Harvard wanted to downplay the Kennedy name in connection with its School of Government originally sparked Vellucci's motion, he said. "I'm going to slap Harvard around until it hurts them," he said...
...Lorean promptly rejected the charges as "completely asinine." Said he: "The government has two people on our board to monitor our finances. Every cent we have ever had has been monitored by British internal revenue." Indeed, the Thatcher government went out of its way to downplay the affair. Britain's Solicitor-General Sir Ian Percival said that only "routine" inquiries were being made and stated flatly: "Neither the Prime Minister nor anyone else has ordered an investigation of the company's affairs or anything remotely like...
University officials have denied that they will downplay the Kennedy name in connection with the school's activities...
...Spring of Panic already seems like ancient history to Harvard professors and administrators. With obvious relief, they downplay the memory of the Reagan administration's initial attack on the federal budget for higher education and point with pride to the programs Congress salvaged over the summer. But new problems have surfaced in recent weeks: slumping financial markets and upward revisions of federal deficit predictions have prompted the administration to propose $10 billion to $15 billion in additional budget cuts, some in the military and some in departments that support universities. "It's always possible we could be getting some more...
American firms experimenting with similar cameras tried last week to downplay Sony's breakthrough. "I can't understand all the fuss," said William Webster, vice president of RCA Laboratories in Princeton, N.J., which has developed a videotape camera that operates on the same principle. "Why would anyone want a still camera that takes pictures only as sharp as those on your TV? It's an idea we've discussed for years and clearly decided that there's no market for the product." Said Eastman Kodak Vice President John Robertson: "We expect traditional still photography...