Word: downplay
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...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...
While Fried attempted to downplay the significance of his two goals and the part they played in the team's win, Coach Mark Mazzoleni was positive in reference to the impact of his freshman...
...Mikels has never harped on the connection between the two (first spotted by cult-movie fanatics); in fact, he goes so far as to downplay it in interviews. When I spoke to him at the Chiller Theatre convention in the late 1990s, he amiably stated that "I never once thought of pursuing litigation... I can sit down and dream up new stories like that.... As fast as my fingers can snap, I can give you a premise for a new story just like it. There are a lot of people who have ideas - maybe it just so happened that...