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Although Administration officials tried to downplay the significance of the trip, a number of agreements were announced. Most important, the U.S. will lend Brazil $1.23 billion, at 8% annual interest for three months, to tide over the debt-burdened (nearly $90 billion in foreign lOUs) country until a $4.5 billion International Monetary Fund loan comes through next year...
...salary raises, they are first roughly calculated faculty-wide, and only then subjected to case-by-case adjustment. To explain this effort to downplay individual professors' merit and achievement. Harvard deans like to smile and say. "All our professors are stars...
Though the President was scheduled to deliver a TV address to the nation on the economic situation this week, some in the White House were trying to downplay the issue. "Unemployed people don't vote," declared one adviser bluntly. For the employed majority, he claimed, the "fundamental concern is the sickness of the economy, which for most people means inflation and interest rates." Not everyone in Washington was convinced, even in the White House. Said one presidential aide: "I think unemployment is a very, very serious problem for us. Anyone who thinks...
...every good marriage, at times one talks about a divorce." After the transatlantic clash provoked by Washington's embargo on technology for the Soviet gas pipeline from Siberia to Western Europe, both the U.S. and its allies assessed the damage, found it considerable and decided to downplay the disagreement...
...threat: the encroachments of Ted Turner's round-the-clock Cable News Network and especially his most recent effort, CNN2, the headline-news service, which has been sold not only to cable systems but also to dozens of the networks' own affiliate stations. Most network executives publicly downplay creeping "Turneritis." CBS News President Van Gordon Sauter discreetly calls CNN "one of a number of factors in our thinking," but NBC's Frank confesses: "It was all Turner. That...