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Turning to internal business, the assembly voted to move the church's headquarters from New York City and Atlanta to Louisville. The head of a site % committee, which had selected Kansas City, glumly eyed the Louisville lobbyists' brochures and gift baseball bats and grumbled, "Glitz and hype carried the day." Not exactly. To gain 900 Presbyterian jobs and a $32 million payroll, the Kentuckians will give the church a downtown building virtually free...
...boomlet of sorts is under way as customers respond with enthusiasm to this form of consumer debt, while lenders vie frantically for customers and market share. But amid the rush, cautionary voices are warning about the dangers of the popular loans, and the misleading nature of some of the hype. The major worry: that some unwary consumers may be undercutting an integral factor in most American savings portfolios, the family home...
Rogers said that the best students who get into Brown, which has a very unstructured curriculum, and other prestigious schools end up going somewhere else. He called the reports of Brown's popularity in past several years "hollow hype...
...bicentennial. Our bicentennial was in 1954," said sophomore Andrew Cadel. "I think the whole thing's a big hype for our alumni, and it's not for me at all," he told The Columbia Spectator...
...claims Bracy was offered immunity in the Navy's attempt to build its case against Lonetree but that Bracy had refused to accept it. Navy investigators concede that their cases have been built largely with lie detectors and must be strengthened. Kunstler goes further: "The case is a consummate hype and fraud," he charged. "They're trying to make Clayton and, I suspect, Bracy too scapegoats for their lax supervision." He said he wants the case taken away from the military and handled in federal courts, where, unlike a court-martial, there is no death penalty for peacetime espionage. "They...