Word: downplay
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...Texas, where Government bailouts are unpopular, Mondale will downplay the selling points he used so well in the East, like his helping to rescue Chrysler from bankruptcy and advocating trade barriers to protect industry. Instead, say his aides, Mondale will preach "prairie populism" and stress that he worries about "real people, real jobs and real pocketbooks." He will particularly target large areas of poverty like the Rio Grande Valley, where unemployment...
Experts also downplay any major consequences of oil mergers on America's dependence on the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries. Says Walter Levy, a leading oil consultant: "OPEC in general benefits from larger markets for its oil. To the extent that Socal-Gulf and other mergers tend to erode the impetus for domestic exploration, OPEC will benefit-but only marginally...
...toward combatting the day-to-day abuses many victims are generally reluctant to report. However, the proposal leaves virtually untouched the existing formal grievance procedures for severe complaints. Those procedures-which rely on the discretion of the Dean of the Faculty rather than clearly stated guidelines-serve to downplay the severity of the offense. Complainants will be reluctant to come forward with serious problems so, long as Harvard continues to treat harassment as a "family matter," rather than a reprehensible and illegal form of discrimination...
...public rebuke fueled speculation that Feldstein might be on the way out. But the President later tried to downplay the incident and insisted that there were no substantial disagreements among Administration policymakers. Nonetheless, economists like Walter Heller, who served as chairman of President Kennedy's Council of Economic Advisers, feared that Reagan was unwisely disregarding Feldstein's warnings about the need for a tax hike...
...Treasury Donold F. Regan and the Secretary of State George P. Schuitz, who apparently misses his former calling as an economist. In the opposing cold are Feldstein and the Chairman of the Federal Reserve Board, Paul A. Volcker, who disagree with the President's current inclination to downplay the deficit...