Word: hyped
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...incredible because we just decided to run for fun, and it wasn't like a huge hype like Heps had been the week beforehand," said freshman Brenda Taylor. "None of us was nervous, and we just were going to go run. [Junior] Heather [Hanson] ran a lot faster opening lap--a second faster--than she ran the week before. It was amazing, we just came together as a team...
...faced with a world that is far more saturated with information than they could have imagined: scores of TV networks, hundreds of magazines, thousands of electronic sources--all brimming with headlines and hype, news and sleaze, smart analysis and kooky opining...
...Canada is likely to win its first gold since 1952 even without Kariya. And the NHL might not have got all the hype it hoped from him anyway. Sure, his skating would have been incredible to watch on the Olympic-size rinks, but his comments about not feeling very Japanese might not have played well, and his lack of stage presence might have worked against the flashy image the NHL wants to present. That's partly because he looks less like an athlete than that guy from your computer-science class. He's so small he was told he could...
...calendar slouches toward the big triple zero, the prudent citizen reviews options: 1) ascend a barren hillside and wait for the world and the millennium hype to end; 2) turn on a computer and watch its date-bollixed software seize up; 3) agree with the grumps who point out that since there was no year zero, the millennium will not crash down on our heads till 2001; or 4) agree with the Chinese, who point out that this year's date is 4635, so why worry...
...nothing more than speculation at this point. We simply don't yet know the facts of the case. They may not be fully available for months or years, if ever. Until we know more, any attempt to pass judgment on the President rests on little more than speculation, hype and an assumption of guilt...