1.  Atari declined comment, but company sources downplayed the news.

2.  But Gore, who was traveling in Florida, downplayed the news.

3.  But the vice president, who was traveling in Florida, downplayed the news.

4.  In an interview in his Galleria office Monday, Keough downplayed the news that he had been named as an adviser to Daft and the Coca-Cola board.

5.  Initially, the New Tribes Mission downplayed news of the kidnappings to keep the hostages from becoming too valuable to the kidnappers.

6.  On the other hand, people tend to downplay news that runs counter to their thinking.

7.  Athletics Australia executive director Martin Soust also downplayed the news, saying Arbeit would have been forced to report on athletes as part of his job.

8.  Boeing officials downplayed the news, saying the company had made many of its order announcements earlier in the year, rather than stockpiling them for the show.

9.  He downplayed news of raids over the past two days at Coke offices in Britain, Germany, Austria and Denmark in which European Union antitrust investigators seized documents.

10.  Representatives of American and TWA downplayed news of the offer.