Word: hyped
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...there,” said Madigan-Curtis, who will be running today. “We’re hoping to reach the whole thing and it will be a real push on the day of the marathon.” She said she hopes that the positive hype on the day of the marathon will attract enough donations to reach the fund-raising objective...
Team officials are facing the challenge. "We have to do an awful lot of work in the black community," says manager Frank Robinson, the former slugger who was the first black major league skipper. He plans to visit schools, YMCAs and business leaders to hype baseball. The Nationals have set up a foundation to promote and fund baseball and mentoring in inner-city areas. The contract that brought the team to Washington even stipulates that the Nationals engage with the community and offer free tickets to city kids. "The key for the Nats is to integrate themselves into the social...
What all this means is that Billy Idol isn't the only bit of '80s cultural flotsam that has floated back lately. The art of that moment is of the moment again. How does it look to us now that the hype has dimmed? Just as it is in music and fashion, in the realm of art, it's a decade that remains a sore spot. It introduced artists whose work has enduring fascination. Cindy Sherman's photographs of herself in the guise of indistinct movie heroines, Jenny Holzer's dream jottings on electronic ticker-tape signs, Elizabeth Murray...
...this sounds suspiciously like the hype-saturated Web circa 1999, it should. These days, tiny companies with names like Zingy and Jamdat are market leaders, and product testing often means throwing something new out to the public just to see if it flies. The world of these wireless data services is so unformed that no one knows yet what people will pay for in the long run. "The history of this space is everyone just feeling their way through," says John Burris, director of wireless data services for Sprint. But the excitement is real: companies and industry experts are convinced...
...concern accompanying a hike in short-term interest rates last week. "I think we have a Fed-credibility problem." Brusca is more worried about nascent signs of weakness, including eroding consumer confidence. A slowdown would quell inflationary pressures quickly, and one theory is that Greenspan's warning was part hype to justify jacking up rates so that he has room to cut them again if things deteriorate...