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Yet, the New England Journal of Medicine downplayed the risks at the time.
In this spirit of indecision, the interview was conducted Tuesday, "downplayed" by his aides on Wednesday, and then "embargoed" until the safety of the Christmas news lull.
Meanwhile, the conservative Daily Telegraph downplayed the story with a small front-page reference, which noted, however, that "the vote, which halved the Republican majority in the House of Representatives and froze it in the Senate, was the best mid-term performance by a president's party since the 1930s."
The pipeline's negative environmental impact and the ravages of the Valdez spill are downplayed.
But it certainly complicates the story, and Gerth either downplayed it or left it out.