Such assurances cut little ice with the locals, who accuse officials of underplaying the problem.
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In fact, he's worried the Obama Administration is underplaying the crisis, as Japan did nearly 20 years ago.
The Obama administration has ignored them and the media have largely followed the administration's lead in underplaying them.
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Cheever (Tim Robbins, underplaying nicely) is impatient to get back to his wife and son in Missouri now that his enlistment is up.
Maki's effortless singing functions as the disc's centerpiece, while musically, her supporting cast plays it fairly straight-ahead and honest, neither over- nor underplaying.
But many of today's central bankers, brought up to believe that their job is to fight inflation, seem to be underplaying the risk.
So to claim that people are underplaying the effects seems, how shall we put this, a little out of touch with the actualite perhaps.
However, it was also intriguing to note her tone - which was to the effect that Mr Gray was "talking Scotland down" and underplaying Scotland's potential.
The faulty methodologies in the way they're put together, such as underplaying improvements in products and services and the crazy way in which we measure housing, have long been noted.
Although the panel said the CRU scientists were careful with caveats, people who subsequently made use of their results, including the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, sometimes oversimplified issues, underplaying possible errors.
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He ran as a Washington outsider, a common-sense economic conservative, traveling the state in a red pickup and wearing a flannel shirt all the while underplaying his background as a Washington lobbyist.
And this week John Thain, Merrill Lynch's former top dog, took a first stab at rehabilitation by accusing Bank of America of underplaying its role, and exaggerating his, in concealing Merrill's big losses and bonuses after agreeing to buy the firm last September.
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Joseph Gordon-Levitt, crinkling his eyes and underplaying, is Adam Lerner, a radio producer for the local NPR station in Seattle who finds himself, at the age of twenty-seven, in the absurd situation of possibly dying from a massive tumor growing on his spine.
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