Word: downplayed
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...domestic crude oil prices over the next ten years. What Carter meant to say, the aide insisted, was that the Senate version of the windfall tax bill will leave the industry with $130 billion more in profits from decontrol than the House measure. Other aides meanwhile tried to downplay and defuse the remarks the President made a week earlier about "punitive actions" that might be taken against the oil majors if the windfall tax did not meet his expectations. A better description of those still unspecified actions, one official suggested, would be "unfriendly." Louisiana Democrat Russell Long, who as chairman...
...however, the high-scoring winger tends to downplay her field hockey talents. She denies having any finesse, and complains that her stickwork is below...
...Democratic Left must understand its history is not a failure," Soglin said last night. "The Left should not downplay its own influence...
...even garbage. Congressmen are increasingly worried that his program may be too costly, too ambitious, too bureaucratic. Yet synfuel is precisely the sort of project, though dismissed by the Harvard experts in advance, that holds tremendous promise. Already, synfuel is being produced economically abroad. For the U.S. to downplay it and put most of its chips on solar and conservation would...
...reputation and staff and amassed a $2 million endowment for acquisitions. A naturalized citizen, de Montebello returned to the Met in 1973 and worked on some of the blockbuster shows ("Treasures from the Kremlin," "Monet at Giverny"). Named director of the Met in May 1978, de Montebello plans to downplay the role of special events and make the museum's treasures more routinely accessible. Says he: "I want people to get used to the idea of dropping in to see familiar objects they love...