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Mac Donald also gets to the root of the problem, one so many people tend to ignore or downplay: marriage.— La Shawn Barber's Corner
The Kremlin is annoyed by this radar station because it would give the U.S. the capability to track every aircraft in Russian airspace all the way to the Urals -- a capability proponents of the system in Washington tend to downplay, since they prefer to portray Moscow as recalcitrant or paranoid for opposing it.— Russia Blog
The dynamic architecture of IMS allows operators to offer promising new services more quickly, add resources for successful services as demand increases, and downplay or remove unsuccessful services easily.
AOL hopes that by creating sites that downplay-or even ignore, in most cases-the AOL brand, it can create more competitive sites that are attractive to advertisers and web users.— Make Them Accountable
However, there's one area they're not about to downplay - how they distinguish themselves from the competition, the large wholesalers of fruits and vegetables who are able to give volume discounts.— Greensboro Business News - Local Greensboro News | The Business Journal of the Greater Triad Area

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