Word: downplay
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...This thing" is the most difficult and daring space assignment since the Apollo moon landings. Though NASA is trying to downplay it as a "scheduled maintenance flight," the goal is anything but routine: the crew is supposed to fix the faulty Hubble Space Telescope, a $1.6 billion disappointment that has kept astronomers in anguish since it was launched three years ago. The repair work will require that alternating pairs of astronauts go on five space walks of six hours each, which would break the NASA record of four such excursions on a mission. Since the task will be something like...
...staff also takes a position that is unnecessarily dismissive of the concerns that working people have about the treaty. Such an elitist attitude cannot be condoned. And it is a subtle attempt to try to downplay the real harm NAFTA will do to America in the short...
...Jersey gubernatorial race, Christine Todd Whitman ousted Democrat James Florio, while New York City Mayor David Dinkins lost to Liberal-Republican Rudolph Giuliani. A Republican also won the Virginia statehouse, with George Allen scoring a victory over Mary Sue Terry. Top Democrats including President Clinton tried to downplay the significance of the results, attributing them to the vagaries of local politics...
Perhaps in an effort to avoid being seen as a fringe, political group, RUS has chosen to downplay its disapproval of the final clubs, leaving leadership in that area to WAC. RUS leaders have made a deliberate effort to tone down some of the group's activities in line with the Radcliffe College administration's less confrontational philosophy. "I think it's possible to be both collaborative and take stands and discuss disagreements openly," says Dean of Radcliffe College Philippa A. Bovet...
...University chooses not to recognize the serious crime that happens on all its campuses, that's fine," said Kotowski. "But I won't stand by and let them use that against officers in trying to downplay the serious, dangerous job the University police...