Word: downplay
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While administrators at several schools have recently tried to downplay the impact of the U.S. News & World Report's annual college rankings, the numbers tell a different story...
...question of whether to trumpet or downplay one's Harvard ties when running for office comes up "all the time," according to Professor Philip R. Sharp of the John F. Kennedy School of Government...
...When we've been number one, we've tried to downplay it," Lewis said. "We've always said that ordinal rankings are not as valuable as the wealth of information that U.S. News and other publications make available to students...
With the Olympics coming to town, "some people are trying to downplay [the Straight Edge threat]," says James Yapias, a correctional and educational consultant. Others suggest that the group would get more attention if the bad guys were black or Hispanic. Nonsense, say police. Of the 200 gang-related felonies last year in Salt Lake County, only three were by Straight Edgers. They might be the oddest gang, but they're not the baddest. They don't even have guns...
Student leaders downplay the significance of University involvement...