Word: overblown
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...philosopher-king is slightly overblown, but he's someone who really does believe that an important part of the responsibility of large corporations is giving back to the community," he said...
...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 a wildfire 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...
This strategy has been effective, but it has also meant that the debate has taken place on what is often dubious grounds. Death alone does not trigger a tax; passing on a large estate does. And those mom-and-pop sob stories are overblown. The fact is, less than 2% of the federal revenue derived from estate taxes comes from farms and small businesses...
...this talk about millennial disasters seemed so overblown...
...taken some anxious years of real-world experience for people to figure out that crypto turned loose in cyberspace will not make the world blow up. Crypto's more or less around and available now, and no, it's not an explosive munition. The threats were overblown, much like Y2K. The rhetoric of all sides has been crazily provocative...