Word: downplay
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...Middle East today, people back home are worried about you. These days you cannot live here without a strategy to reassure concerned friends and family in America. After conversing with several people here, I have discovered that the most popular method of inducing loved ones to relax is to downplay the severity of the situation. People constantly tell the folks at home that life here is "not that bad." This trivializes the pain and suffering the Israelis and Palestinians are experiencing. If you have friends studying or working in this troubled region who tell you "it's not that...
Administrators downplay discipline and stress the protective aspects of the College's policy, framing restrictions on alcohol use as safeguards to stop students from drinking themselves to death. They emphasize the College's efforts to place students with problems into alcohol counseling...
...fewer than 2,000, compared to 180,000 in Britain. And yet across Europe, beef consumption has plunged 27% in the last three months; in Germany it has been cut in half. This is an epidemic propelled by fear, and governments aren't immune. Ridiculed for their attempts to downplay the threat last year, German authorities last week pledged to buy, slaughter and bury 400,000 cows in an effort to rid the country of the disease. Full Story...
...Meanwhile, the political clock ticks. David Boies was out within the hour to downplay the decision - "We think the U.S. Supreme Court decision does not in any way affect the contest before Judge Sauls" - before favoring reporters with some well-spun analysis of the implications. For Boies, still fighting for a clean-slate hand count of some 14,000 votes, a decision that at worst costs his client only the 400-odd Broward County votes and does nothing to the ongoing "contest" except muddy it up a bit is just another fly on his legal windshield. "There's no reason...
...tight majority on the conservative Court that made such a handy bogeyman for Gore during the campaign sure wouldn't stop him now. The veep's response to a loss would be much like Bush's would be, except that Gore would likely do it personally: Downplay, downplay, downplay...