Word: hubbub
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...founded theme, whether it be consumer demand for tulip bulbs or, in this case, the notion that China's economic growth is boundless. David Webb, an independent investor based in Hong Kong, says that's what's happening with many China stocks. "Once you get past the hubbub, the fundamentals behind these prices just aren't there," Webb says...
...founded theme, whether it's about future demand for tulip bulbs or, in this case, the notion that China's economic growth is boundless. David Webb, an independent investor based in Hong Kong, says that this is what's happening with many China stocks. "Once you get past the hubbub, the fundamentals behind these prices just aren't there," he notes...
LOST IN THE HUBBUB OVER Zinédine Zidane's World Cup-- final head butt was a classic finish in the semis. Minutes before the match between Italy and host country Germany was headed for penalty shots, Italy's Fabio Grosso took a gorgeous pass from Andrea Pirlo and curled it by the German goalkeeper, putting Italy up 1-0 (it added another goal two minutes later). Italy beat France in the final, giving the Azzurri their fourth World...
...panic didn't quite approach that created by Orson Welles' War of the Worlds - acknowledged as the model for the Belgian prank - but more than 30,000 phone calls flooded the broadcaster's switchboard, and the channel's website crashed as concerned viewers sought confirmation. The reason for the hubbub, of course, is that although the events described in the fake "news" broadcast had more than a dash of melodrama, they were eminently believable...
...What the current hubbub over political lying ignores or drowns out is the fact that there are disabling truths, messy realities that positively stymie adequate response unless their particulars are reduced to deceptive simplicities. Every sentient human being knows this from daily experience ... Constantly hearing the truth, the cold, hard, brutal unsparing truth, from spouses, relatives, friends and colleagues is not a pleasant prospect. 'Human kind,' as T.S. Eliot wrote, 'cannot bear very much reality.' TRUTH TELLING MAKES IT POSSIBLE FOR PEOPLE TO COEXIST; A LITTLE LYING MAKES SUCH SOCIETY TOLERABLE. At what point does 'a little' become 'too much...