understate
frames
understate.XX:
understate.XX sub-ARG0 obj-ARG1
- Our five-year plan contains three accounting devices -- negative money , an above guidance management reserve and [ARG0 optimistic inflation estimates] -- which *T*-1 [rel understate] [ARG1 the spending 0 the Pentagon has committed itself to *T*-2 by almost $ 100 billion *U*] .
- [ARG0 The estimates of real gross national product prepared * by the Bureau of Economic Analysis in the Department of Commerce] [ARGM-MNR significantly] [rel understate] [ARG1 the rate of economic growth] .
- [ARGM-DIS Finally] , [ARG0 the official estimates] [rel understate] [ARG1 growth] [ARGM-CAU because they make inadequate allowance for improvements in quality of goods and services] .
- [ARG0 USED-CAR BUYERS] who *T*-1 try *-2 to avoid sales tax by * [rel understating] [ARG1 prices paid * in private deals] are the targets of a New York drive .
understate.XX NP-ARG2-at obj-ARG1
- The Commerce Department found that [ARG1 U.S. exports in 1988 , net of imports ,] were understated *-1 by $ 20.9 billion *U* a year and [rel understated] *-1 at [ARG2-at the annualized rate of $ 25.4 billion *U*] [ARGM-TMP in the first quarter of 1989] .
understate.XX NP-ARG2-by obj-ARG1
- The Commerce Department found that [ARG1 U.S. exports in 1988 , net of imports ,] were [rel understated] *-1 by [ARG2-by $ 20.9 billion *U* a year] and understated *-1 at the annualized rate of $ 25.4 billion *U* in the first quarter of 1989 .
understate.XX obj-ARG1
- The evidence does not clearly support the view that the downward bias in output growth has become greater during the 1948-89 period , but all 0 I am claiming *T*-91 is that [ARG1 the growth trend] is [rel understated] *-90 .