Word: hyping
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...propaganda excesses preceding the summit have been surpassed only by the frenzy of media hype surrounding the event. The excitement of the thousands of journalists covering the story is way out of proportion to the summit's likely outcome. There may be an agreement at the summit on curtailing chemical weapons. There may be other arms control accords. Both superpowers may even decide to abide by such agreements. Perhaps years of antagonism and jingoism will give way to cordial relations. Perhaps all this will happen in the six hours of summit talks planned at Geneva...
Enough is enough. Of course foreigners benefit from our technology, just as we benefit from Swiss watches and Japanese cars. But while information can be obtained, a missile silo cannot, as the purposefully vague Reaganese threats would like us to infer. The Administration's spy-hunting hype has passed the bounds of mediocre entertainment to the point where it now threatens the most fundamental freedoms of our more or less open society. With all its shadowy accusations and logical pratfalls, the Administration must not be allowed to dupe the public into fearing Commies when it should fear abridgements...
...recent years, a host of universities ranging from MIT to Stevens Tech in Hoboken, N.J. have jumped boldly into the computerization race, prompting Orwellian superstition and unrestrained hype over how technology could wipe out higher education as we know it. Harvard, in the meantime, remained quietly on the sidelines, playing the role of spectator in the high-tech race. That is, until...
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...recent years, a host of universities ranging from MIT to Stevens Tech in Hoboken, N.J. have jumped boldly into the computerization race, prompting Orwellian superstition and unrestrained hype over how technology could wipe out higher education as we know it. Harvard, in the meantime, remained quietly on the sidelines, playing the role of spectator in the high-tech race. That is, until...