Word: hyped
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Like all red-blooded Americans, we at Dartboard have been eagerly awaiting this weekend's re-release of Star Wars, George Lucas' classic science fiction film. Twenty years after the movie first opened, the current wave of hype has given us the perfect opportunity to rehash our debates about the true motives of Luke Skywalker's suspicious uncle Owen, to argue about the relative merits of life in the Hoth and Dagobah systems, and of course, to ponder whether Princess Leia is, in fact, a true feminist...
Although some students were happy that they could legally watch Superbowl XXXI in a sports bar, others felt that going to Montreal was the only way to escape the game's hype...
...SUPER BOWL BALLYHOO, HYPE, HOOPLA & HUBBUB...
...disappointed to note that, in the staff editorial of Dec. 9, The Crimson denigrated Michael A. O'Mary '99, who organized the first student group summit, ran Thanksgiving shuttle buses and did a lot of organizational work for the Institute of Politics' HYPE '96, calling him "unqualified...
...years, the securities industry in the U.S. and elsewhere has been host to fast-buck brokerage firms that have ridden the back of the bull market like so many parasites. Typically, they hype penny stocks in tiny companies that are all promise and no delivery and then close up shop when the market hiccups or the regulators catch on, leaving gullible investors to count their losses...