Word: downplaying
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...type of large-screen, flat-panel displays. Sharp may have better technology, but Masuda wonders whether it can reduce costs enough to defeat the makers of PDP sets, which are significantly cheaper. "There is a real price battle going on," says Masuda, as Sharp jockeys for position. Sharp executives downplay such claims, saying the market is big enough for sellers of both types of large-screen TVs to prosper. "That is the benefit of being relatively small and targeted," says Toshishige Hamano, Sharp's international business director. "We are not aiming at all users...
Michael Grynbaum’s ill-informed article (“Nazi In Our Midst,” Magazine, Feb. 10), which misrepresents my keynote address at the recent David S. Wyman Institute for Holocaust Studies Conference at Boston University, and attempts to downplay Harvard’s role in enhancing Nazi Germany’s image in the West, has just come to my attention. The Crimson never notified me of its publication...
...White House refused to answer other questions on the subject. Who was the dermatologist? Why had there been no advance announcement of the operation, however minor? Why was no test for cancer performed on the removed skin? Apparently, after airing details of his colon-cancer operation, Reagan wished to downplay additional medical discussion. But by sealing their lips, White House aides aroused more curiosity than they desired and probably more than the minor procedure deserved. FOREIGN POLICY Bludgeoned with an Umbrella...
Though British officials had gone to considerable lengths to downplay the significance of the event, the summit agreement reverberated across Britain and Ireland like a distant explosion. The straightforward language of the accord raised as many fears as it did hopes. Said Professor John A. Murphy, a history teacher at University College, Cork: "There is no grand solution. You can only make incremental moves. This seems to be a courageous one. It's the first time a role for the south has been formally recognized [in Northern Ireland] since 1925. This has to be a dramatic development...
...Reporters Sans Frontières, the administration of President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo recently set up Task Force Newsmen, a special group under Interior Secretary Angelo Reyes, to look into the killings. But Reyes, the hard-bitten former Chief of Staff of the Philippine Armed Forces, seems determined to downplay the problem. "There is no climate of fear here," he insists. "These [journalists] who were involved in nefarious activities-if they were killed or threatened because of those activities, and not because they were crusading journalists, then I don't think that is a crime against freedom of expression...