Word: hype
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Underneath the hype and rivalry is a sharedrespect. Root against the Yalies during the dayand then drink with them at night. That's theessence of this rivalry...
...mass communications media are increasingly devoted to health and medicine. Advertising, public relations and the media together collaborate in a kind of "medico-media hype," as every new research finding or experimental treatment spawns an immediate press conference and a torrent of publicity. With each month, a new disease comes into vogue--osteoporosis, premenstrual syndrome, Alzheimer's disease and, of course, AIDS...
...game hype included a screaming match at theFreshman Union in which Red Sox fans shouted downNew York backers...
While the DEA was focusing on crack, some news organizations were questioning whether the entire drug-abuse story has been receiving too much attention. The New Republic ran a cover story billed "Confessions of a Drug- Hype Junkie," written by Adam Paul Weisman, a researcher at U.S. News & World Report who worked on that magazine's July 28 cover story about drug abuse. Weisman charged other publications with "blatant sensationalism" for having ignored statistics indicating there is no boom in drug experimentation among high school students; the number who sampled cocaine, he noted, has been oscillating between...
...Drinking the soda is probably no worse than drinking a cup of coffee," says UHS Director Warren E.C. Wacker. "It sounds more like hype than reality...