Word: overblown
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Thus far, fears of a "hard landing" for China's economy appear to have been overblown. The Chinese government has taken measures to curb some of the wilder excesses, tightening conditions on some bank loans and raising interest rates to stave off inflation. But the government clearly has its limits. There was broad agreement among the panelists that Chinese authorities have little interest in unlinking their currency from the dollar, despite consistent pressure to do so from the U.S. "The sanguine view is that it is not in the interest of the Asians to break the dollar link," said Tyson...
...while the latest brouhaha over Summers’ comments on the innate differences between men and women in science was overblown by the national media and some professors, it illustrates his inability to understand the detrimental effects his words can have. Summers himself admitted in a letter sent to the Faculty Standing Committee on Women that he had “misjudged the impact of [his] role as a conference participant.” Moreover, professors should not feel ashamed about using these comments as a touchstone, as they have, to provoke debate over Summers’ entire presidency. These...
Jokes aside, McNabb clearly knows the score going into this year's Super Bowl. Only one other black quarterback, Doug Williams of the 1987 Washington Redskins, has won the big game. "It's not overblown," McNabb says of his place in history. "But I won't make it into a big issue." So his teammates will. McNabb's favorite receiver, superstar Terrell Owens, recuperating from a broken ankle, insists he'll play against doctor's orders to get his QB the ring...
...from money that would flow into the new accounts. At the other end of the Street, the bond market could turn thumbs down on the grounds that trillions in new government borrowing would hurt the economy, raise interest rates and make the dollar suffer. But both assumptions may be overblown, financial experts say. Though University of Chicago economist Austan Goolsbee has estimated that the financial-services industry could reap $940 billion in fees over the next 75 years from private accounts--real money, even by Wall Street standards--some firms say the accounts look more like a headache than...
...think that all this concern is overblown and that an expansion of opt-options, as silly as they may seem, would be a good thing for this campus. Consider for a moment the tremendous triumph of democratic deliberation that is subsumed in the opt-out option: A majority rules, and the rights of the minority to disagree with that rule are actually respected. That’s a compromise that would have pleased Alexander Hamilton and Thomas Jefferson. It combines a free-market mechanism any conservative can embrace with an inherent toleration any liberal can love...