Word: overblown
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...Timothy A. Chorba, a 1972 HLS graduate who served as U.S. Ambassador to Singapore from 1994 to 1997, says some of the HLS rhetoric about the emergence of an international law community might be overblown...
...most avid die-cast robot aficionados have put videos of their collections on the Internet: overblown prose describes each robot in joint-by-joint detail. Nakamura scoffs at videotaping, but he admits to owning a few photos of his favorites. And from time to time, he writes about his robots in his magazine. Not because the readers may care, but because it's his magazine and he can do whatever he wants. That's the power of being the ultimate Giant Robot...
...credit for simply raising issues? If we gave awards to people simply for displaying the "courage" to be bigoted, John Rocker would be a Nobel laureate and Jimmy the Greek would be a Pulitzer prize winner. On the other hand, the furor about Eminem's lyrics is a bit overblown. The most nominated movie at the Oscars is the ultra-violent "Gladiator." The number one movie at the box office is the ultra-violent "Hannibal." Say what you want about Slim Shady, he's not eating anybody's brains...
...critics of agricultural biotechnology right? Is biotech's promise nothing more than overblown corporate hype? The papaya growers in Hawaii's Puna district clamor to disagree. In 1992 an epidemic of papaya ringspot virus threatened to destroy the state's papaya industry; by 1994, nearly half the state's papaya acreage had been infected, their owners forced to seek outside employment. But then help arrived, in the form of a virus-resistant transgenic papaya developed by Cornell University plant pathologist Dennis Gonsalves...
...plenty of companies still buy back shares for the right reasons. Deflated by the Firestone flap, Ford has increased and expedited a huge buyback unveiled last spring. The company plainly believes its woes are overblown, and many analysts agree. The stock is down 17% in two months and looks like a screaming bargain to some. I'm not so sure, given the bad publicity the Ford Explorer is getting...