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Why does the Post play up the closing of the gender gap but downplay the widening of the marriage gap?
Microsoft is widely suspected to harbor ambitions of world conquest, but it was Chatterbox's impression that the company wished to downplay any such ambitions while Judge Jackson considered whether to break it up into itty-bitty pieces.
Another question: It's bad enough that the law tends to downplay these cases, but why don't the papers make more of being willing to kill service members to make a profit?
Other pundits downplay the accusations of treason and malfeasance, noting that Republican presidents were the first to enlist Chinese assistance in launching U.S. satellites (Doyle McManus, PBS's Washington Week in Review ; Eleanor Clift, The McLaughlin Group ).
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: