Word: downplaying
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...Landesman, the man now in charge of prosecuting the oil companies, told a House Government Operations subcommittee last week that he had written a report describing how the reduced budget would cripple his efforts. But his new superiors at DOE, Landesman testified, urged him to rewrite the report and downplay the impact of the budget cuts. An internal DOE memo obtained by Subcommittee Chairman Toby Moffett of Connecticut maintained that the oil probe could earn the Treasury at least $600 million in additional payments from the companies-much more than would be saved by budget reductions...
Contingency scenarios for US military deployment tend to underestimates troop requirements, estimates of casualty rates, and the time and geographic scope of required engagement. Politico-military analysts downplay the potential for regionalization of armed conflict in the isthmus. In particular they underestimate the implications of the Nicaraguan and Cuban commitment to provide military support to Salvadorean guerilla forces in the event of continued escalation of US involvement. No serious consideration appears to have been given to global security implications of an escalated regional conflict involving US, Cuban, Nicaraguan, Venezuelan and other participants...
Analysts in Washington project a continuation of Mexico's rhetorical posturing and downplay recent changes. But current intelligence suggests that Mexico is unusually determined to promote the emergence of stable, progressive and representative governments in Central America capable of asserting their independence from the US and willing to develop friendly and cooperative relations with their powerful northern neighbor. There are two principal reasons for this affirmative policy...
...government made point of banning all wreaths and eulogies at the graveside. West German military personnel were ordered not to wear uniforms at the funeral. Allied NATO soldiers were discouraged from attending in military dress. In its attempt to downplay Dönitz's death, however, the government inadvertently made an issue of it. The political far right, including West Germany's small but active neo-Nazi fringe, chimed in with praise for the late admiral. Kurt Reitsch, an old navy friend of Dönitz's who is arranging the funeral, criticized Bonn for overreacting. Said...
...been investigating complaints of segregation in the 47,000-student county school system for 14 months. But with the Carter Administration scheduled to leave office on Jan. 20, they naturally assumed that any new civil rights initiatives would be left for the new Government, which is expected to downplay the use of busing to achieve integration...