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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?
If the economy is good, people will pay extra for gas, and what the Journal tends to downplay is that almost all the environmental controls implemented thus far have proven to be good for business.
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 ).
Explanations involving ecological mechanisms often downplay the significance of such regional differences and give most attention to covariation between current diversity and variables such as energy and water availability, and to the ultimate mechanisms underlying this covariation (Hawkins et al.
Both the state party and Votation.com downplay any concerns about potential voter fraud.