Word: hyped
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...been so much written about drugs recently that we thought it was time to step back and take a longer view. In 1900 people were bent out of shape over Coca-Cola because it contained cocaine. At the same time there is a serious problem here, and, the hype notwithstanding, we really are in the midst of a national crisis...
...their workmates and schoolmates, to their neighbors and friends, to their communities and to themselves -- that drug use is not acceptable. If that is, in fact, one result of the current frenzy over what has been a recurring crisis for successive generations of Americans, then even all the hype and excess may in retrospect be worthwhile...
Taken on its own, the stadium celebration could be considered a success. In the wake of all the hype surrounding the finale to Harvard's four-day birthday party, the gala inevitably did not live up to the heightened expectations surrounding...
...addition to the 350th hype, alumninetworking built up during the five-year HarvardCampaign, which drew a 65 percent participationrate, has also intensified alumni desire tocontribute, says David Johnson, spokesman for thedevelopment office...
...defenders have been striking back at the shiny aluminum-and-plastic CDs. "Metallic, gritty, grainy and unnatural," declares Harry Pearson, editor and publisher of the Absolute Sound, a journal devoted to the glories of old- fashioned analog recording. Claims for the superiority of CDs, say LP partisans, are hype. "Many of the people who were initially impressed by compact discs have been disappointed," asserts Gene Rubin, a Los Angeles-area audio retailer. "There is no way that LPs are going to vanish...