Word: underplay
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...According to a report in the Guardian on Tuesday, the agency, under pressure from the U.S., has in past reports deliberately underestimated just how fast the world is running out of oil. The newspaper quoted an unnamed senior IEA official as saying that the U.S. encouraged the agency to "underplay the rate of decline from existing oil fields while overplaying the chance of finding new reserves...
...double triumph for Calderón. His performance outclassed Mexico's usual disaster response (after the 1985 earthquake, the public basically had to rescue itself while officials tried to underplay the casualties). It also helped Calderón show he cares about poor people in the south, the home turf of his populist rival Andrés Manuel López Obrador, who still tours the country calling himself the "legitimate President...
...relief efforts stand in stark contrast to how Mexico dealt with disasters during its 71 years of one-party rule that ended in 2000. Authorities were slow to react to a catastrophic earthquake in 1985, leaving much of the rescue efforts to the public while officials tried to underplay the casualties. The new culture of disaster response has centered around active civil protection agencies, preplanned shelters in every community and a lively media, giving minute-by-minute updates on the catastrophes...
...cause like they pick up laundry, with T-shirts meant to support Darfur (“Save Darfurâ€), Obama (“BaRock My Worldâ€), and awareness about AIDS (the newly-popular “HIV-Positive†tees). But sometimes, casual campaigning can underplay the seriousness of an issue. “I get mad when I see people wearing shirts of Mao Zedong,†says Justine S. Chow ’10, another student who attended the T-shirt making event. “They don’t know what...
...People are truly wearing down," says Howard Osofsky, chair of the psychiatry department at L.S.U. Health Sciences Center. "I don't want to underplay people's resilience, people's determination, how hard our community is trying. But if I go into a reception, I will have business leaders, I will have prominent members of the community come up to me and say, 'I have been so depressed. I just don't know if I can take it any more...