Word: downplaying
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Southern chose to downplay Barth's major themes. The film only hints once at Horner's inability to choose. Mythotherapy is described in a sequence faithfully taken from the novel, but is never related to any of Jake's actions outside of the Farm...
Even while acknowledging the difficulty of determining optimal urban policy, some skeptical critics downplay the so-called urban fiscal "crisis." They contend that a disproportionate amount of the nation's wealth is concentrated in metropolitan areas, and add that this is particularly true for the New York area...
...appointment to the Organization of American States was overruled by Secretary of State William Rogers. At OAS, Joseph J. Jova, another minor-league professional, last week was named to replace Sol Linowitz, a successful lawyer-businessman with close ties to L.B.J. Latins fear this means that Nixon will downplay...
...forces a cutback in orders. So far, the company has firm orders for 81 of the C-5A's. Even if the full 120-plane run is completed, Lockheed stands to lose $285 million, according to Air Force estimates made public last week. Those estimates purposely tend to downplay the suspicions raised by C-5A foes, who had suggested that the Pentagon and Lockheed had been conspiring to ensure that the company came out of the contract with an ample profit. In any case, Lockheed disagrees with the Air Force loss figures; company spokesmen insist that on a full...
...Likely. President and Chief Executive Harold S. Mohler, 48, insists that the changes are not meant to downplay the importance of chocolate. But serious fluctuations in the cocoa market did figure in Hershey's decision to expand into other fields. With purchases of some 100,000 tons a year, Hershey is the largest U.S. buyer of cocoa, and in Ghana, the principal provider, scarce supplies have pushed prices up 200% in two years, to 30? a pound. To combat such price rises and increased wages for its 6,800 employees, Hershey has already chopped one-eighth of an ounce...