Word: downplay
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Hall is open in discussing many of the changes, but, for the most part, he tends to downplay the criticisms of his actions. In the past year, two long-time department heads--John B. Butler in Personnel and C. Graham Hurlburt in Food Services--have been shuffled into new positions by Hall in what several observers have characterized as a discreet effort to "put them out to pasture because they were not team players." In July 1974, Hurlburt was moved to a new position as director of administrative services, a post which, although listed on Hall's organizational chart...
...There was, if not skepticism, a kind of uneasiness about anything that would generate pressures to downplay controversial news on the networks." Turner added...
...nonpolemical and convincing. They name the offending corporations, pin down the evasions of company doctors, reveal the indifference of Government bureaucrats charged with enforcing industrial health laws. They come to a common conclusion: for many years, many industries, doctors and Government agencies have joined in a tacit conspiracy to downplay industrial dangers in order not to panic workers, tarnish corporate images or endanger profits. Brodeur is especially effective in detailing the overlapping membership of medical experts on boards that advise both industry and the Government agencies that set safety standards, mostly with the good of industry in mind...
...month urging "all Bostonians to help make school opening this September safe and quiet." The 20 are members of the Boston Community Media Committee, a group founded six years ago largely to promote more sensitive coverage of minority-group affairs. More important than the statement, the executives agreed to downplay any incidents of violence. "We went about it from the standpoint of our civic responsibility," recalls Lamont Thompson, New England area vice president for Westinghouse Broadcasting. "We made a very strong commitment to the mayor that although we would cover the totality of the news, there would be no inflammatory...
...prosecutor, Petersen seems inordinately eager to downplay the merits...