Word: downplay
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...Gore's daughter, 27-year-old Karenna Gore Schiff, also attended with her husband, Drew. Schiff likes to downplay her influence, making like a daughter who just wants to be there to support Dad. But the truth is she's hawk-eyed about every detail. Before Gore was to go out, the MTV team did a few one-on-ones with him in a hallway for other shows. MTV correspondent John Norris started to position Gore for a Q&A for the hit music countdown show "Total Request Live." As he did, Schiff, in black pants, red tank...
Last year, Holloway and five other conservatives on the Kansas school board voted to downplay evolution in the state's science standards. All over the globe and on "The Daily Show" with Jon Stewart, the world alternated between laughter and outrage. Kansas was made to look stupid. Very stupid...
...game "invocations" (the contents of which were generally left up to the students). Before two local families filed a suit against the district in 1995, many schools allowed student-elected "chaplains" to lead prayers before the games; after the suit, however, the "invocations" were introduced in a bid to downplay the religious significance of the messages...
...little bit. "It's like going on a diet. You can lose most of the fat in the earliest stages; then it gets harder to lose more, or even retain the loss," says Eli Silverman, a criminal-justice professor at John Jay College. New York's police officials also downplay the significance of the change...
...they are on game nights. "The bad-boy thing doesn't bother me," he says. "People are going to think what they're going to think. The first impression of me is the incident with P.J. I understand why I have the image. I'm not trying to downplay the incident. It wasn't right. We make mistakes, and we've got to move...