Word: hype
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...natural health industry is built on a lot of hype," Strohl says. "While I do believe that many benefits that can be received from herbal therapy, some people want to make the savvy choice...
...downsizing of new year's Eve is a logical reaction to that conspicuous, late-second-millennium phenomenon: runaway hype. We've seen years of countdowns, retrospectives and magazine special issues. One entrepreneur went as far as to trademark and license the date 01-01-00 for New Year's gewgaws. No sooner did the milestone begin looming than advertisers began trying to persuade us to, say, associate the Roman numeral 2000--MM--with a certain candy-coated chocolate. Even the Y2K problem has morphed from potential cataclysm to commercial punch line: a Nike ad shows a man going...
...millennium? More likely, we'll return in January to trade stocks, work overtime, buy DVD toasters at postholiday sales, having taken a breather between a turbulent millennium past and an uncertain one ahead. After a season of Y2K anxiety and millenarian doomsaying, condensed history and holiday hype, we should all be so lucky as to have another boring New Year...
Instead of contributing to the media hype that so negatively affects the lives of MIT students (much more than fraternities actually do), you should consider supporting your peers down the river...
...when Weiss, now in his sixth season, said this year's team is "something special," his words are those of experience, and not mere hype...