Word: downplaying
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Other students at the meeting suggested the group downplay Vaux’s popularity, instead emphasizing his ability to integrate other subjects within his field...
...Others pointed out that both mammography and breast cancer treatments are better now than they were in the 1970s and '80s, when some of those studies were conducted. Some breast cancer advocates have even wondered whether the Danish researchers might have had an economic or a political incentive to downplay the benefits of what are fairly expensive screening programs...
...Others downplay the effects of cross-listing and large classes. When professor Robert Kiely’s English 13: “The English Bible” was offered as a cross-listed class in the Core, the course’s size nearly doubled, jumping to 208 students from just 125 last year. “It’s not too big of a problem. We’re in Harvard Hall 104, so I can still see faces,” Kiely says. “It may be true that [non-concentrators] bring less background with...
...Saudi public and minimize cultural clashes ... Their bases are located away from cities and towns, and when they must venture into settlements, they are under orders to wear civilian clothing and to go unarmed when possible. Violations ... have evoked complaints from the Saudis, though both sides are eager to downplay such frictions...
...Meanwhile, Bloomberg?s spin doctors kept busy Monday trying to downplay a years-old sexual harassment case against the billionaire businessman. (The suit was settled out of court for an undisclosed...