Word: downplaying
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...including oil from North Africa) to grow from 15% today to 25% by 2015 - there has even been Washington gossip, denied by the State Department, that the U.S. will build a military base in São Tomé to protect its growing interests in the region. U.S. officials downplay strategic considerations in the rush to West Africa, despite the note in Vice President Cheney's recent National Energy Policy report that West Africa is "one of the fastest-growing sources of oil and gas for the American market." "There's been all this talk about a strategic dimension that...
Saad bin Laden ASSUMED ALIVE --Osama's son is only about 22 but Arab sources claim he has taken over the reins of al-Qaeda. U.S. officials downplay the likelihood that junior is in charge, but they say his role has increased since 9/11. Intel reports suggest Saad, a finance and logistics guy, is hiding out separately from his father on the Afghanistan-Pakistan border...
Dire predictions, apocalyptic talk and doom-and-gloom scenarios are not enough to inspire people to change either their politics or their day-to-day behavior. But neither can we afford to downplay the problems we face nor think that sustainable development will happen of its own accord. At the dawn of this new century, we must make a choice. We have the human and material resources needed to achieve sustainable development, not as an abstract concept but as a concrete reality. At Johannesburg the world's peoples must come together: to demonstrate our strong sense of common destiny...
With so many NHL prospects on its roster, the pressure will be on the Crimson to repeat as ECAC champions, but the players downplay that effect...
When media questioned Harvard’s high number of honors degrees and inflated grades, Summers didn’t seek to downplay the issues, instead admitting Harvard had a problem...