Word: hype
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...that supplied the factory, a tragic circumstance for a place that has an unemployment rate of about 22%. De Lorean's project was obviously risky, but it was doomed in the end by his own mistakes and some events he could not control. Sales, buoyed by dealers' hype, were brisk when the car first came to market in the summer of last year. Some 3,000 DMC-12s' were sold in the first six months. But by December, bad weather and the recession's icy grip had cut sales to a fraction of their starting pace...
...though no one was on record as actually paying such sums for the work of the new stupor mundi, and the press showed its usual gullibility about the steep differences between publicity price, asking price and real discounted price. This classic hype was carried out, against the backdrop of a teetering art market, on a scale not seen since the promotion of Bernard Buffet in Paris at about the time Schnabel was born...
Meanwhile, Leverett players remained calm among all this hype. "No way are they going to beat us," said tight end Tim Belktz. "They're no good. We're bigger than them. They've been practicing a lot and are all jacked up, but we're not worried...
...President's carping is especially pathetic in light of the hype that accompanied the 1980 supply-side millenium. In the President's own words of last September, the tax break budget cut bonanza was supposed to usher in "an American Renaissance that will astound the world" a transformation so radical that past Democratic errors couldn't possibly stand...
...Yale coach kept calling me and gave me the big hype," he stated, "but Harvard is where I wanted to go all along...