Word: underplaying
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...form a government, the Japanese public got a fascinating glimpse of the depth and breadth of political divisions within the LDP and the potential obstructiveness of the system. As the faction leaders jousted, it became clear that behind their hatred lies an issue the LDP has desperately tried to underplay: the role of corruption in the Japanese political system...
...through the night to map a strategy for dealing with the crisis. School Superintendent Samuel Stewart realized that he had two options: he could react dramatically to the community's grief by canceling classes, holding a school assembly or undertaking some other large new program, or he could underplay the deaths for fear that such public activity might trigger more suicides...
...spending. Congress enhanced the stimulus by setting spending at $413 billion. Again, all the evidence-the recent slowdown in growth, the continuing high unemployment-shows that Ford's policy was too conservative. Democrats say Ford and his policymakers constantly stress the dangers of growing too fast, but often underplay the costs of growing too slowly -the cost of output lost. In consequence, needs go unmet, unemployment remains high, and strains develop in society...
Although he was in effect a one-man operation, Hurok liked to underplay his own indispensability. "A lot of people are mistaken when they say that if Hurok disappears his organization will fall apart," he would say. "It'll go on, as long as they have the artists." Last week -two years after Hurok died at the age of 85-the current management of Hurok Concerts conceded that almost three dozen of its biggest box office draws had quit. The stampede out of Hurok began one of the biggest shake-ups in the concert business. Items...
...Green is "building hopes for success on improved rebounding ability," said sports information director Jack DeGange, a man unlikely to underplay Dartmouth's cage strength...