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In particular, the pollsters charge that PROMO downplayed the extent to which respondents' fear of crime was based on the experience of crime--53 percent of those polled had said that they or someone they loved had been the victim of a crime.
A separate piece reviews a new collection of Ellison short stories, praising Ellison's conviction that blacks had "a degree of freedom" despite the confines of American racism, freedom that black "protest" writers (Toni Morrison, Richard Wright) have unfortunately downplayed.
Many accounts of the march downplayed the nation's presence.
The Times also suggests that the White House itself downplayed the findings in order to protect its delicate rapport with China.
The pipeline's negative environmental impact and the ravages of the Valdez spill are downplayed.