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These correlated improvements in fitness in novel environments suggest that adaptation to the laboratory environment was nonspecific and multifaceted, and seem to downplay the significance of the compromised fundamental niche.
Why does the Post play up the closing of the gender gap but downplay the widening of the marriage gap?
Both the state party and Votation.com downplay any concerns about potential voter fraud.
However , the overall thrust of the portion of the Nixon Library document that interprets Nixon's remarks on "Jewish Americans" is indeed to downplay Nixon's comic-book anti-Semitism:
As the investigative medical journalist Jeanne Lenzer reports in her Essay for PLoS Medicine [6], the whistleblowers spoke of public regulatory agencies that are putting the interests of drug companies ahead of the safety of patients, and of pharmaceutical companies that allow their marketing departments to knowingly downplay serious side effects when promoting their drugs.