Word: downplay
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...sponsors have a tremendous influence on the way Fidelity manages its portfolios. Those managers are reported to have been prime instigators of the changes that Fidelity made last March. Although Fidelity tries to downplay such corporate pressure, Vanderheiden acknowledges that it was "one of the top three of four" reasons for the moves...
Modern archaeologists downplay the good King--bad King labels, which date to an apocryphal--and now discounted--tale told by the Greek historian Herodotus about how Khufu prostituted his own daughter to pay for his pyramid. Good or bad, Snefru ended up in the Red Pyramid, entombed in a magnificent three-room burial chamber that is considered the finest of the Old Kingdom. The chamber, with its 45-ft. corbel ceiling, remains. Its royal occupant, however, is missing. A mummy discovered in the pyramid in 1948 and believed to contain Snefru's corpse disappeared shortly afterward and has never been...
Seniors who have been nominated to receive summa degrees today downplay the award's significance and some express dissatisfaction with the way their honors distinction was determined...
...took on Tuesday, when he won only 8 of 21 delegates in the Louisiana state caucuses. The clear loss to Pat Buchanan stung, coming just six days before the crucial Iowa caucuses. Only a couple weeks before, Gramm had confidently predicted he would take all 21 delegates. Trying to downplay expectations just before the vote, Gramm said that he would be satisfied with taking only 11 delegates: "I intend to get up Wednesday morning, come to Iowa and campaign hard every day if I don't get one delegate." Wednesday, Gramm tried damage control before supporters in Iowa by ignoring...
...have [ergometer tests] once a week in the beginning of the year," says Donaldson. "In the winter you have [erg tests] too. That certainly adds intensity because everyone is competitive all the time so the task is to downplay the competition...