Word: overblown
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...June interview for TIME's Olympic preview issue, I asked James if he could guarantee that the United States would win gold in Beijing. It was a throwaway question, a standard strategy sports journalists employ to see if an athlete will prematurely pump his chest. Sure, guarantees get overblown, but they do say a lot about an athlete. He or she is confident, even cocky, and willing to put a reputation on the line. Thing is, most athletes prefer to say nothing at all. Especially ones like LeBron, whose army of handlers get paid to insure their prized asset stays...
...Icelanders - from cab drivers who recite economic statistics to Prime Minister Geir Haarde who travels the world calming investors' nerves - the hysteria appears overblown. "What you'd expect to see out of these windows is fire," says Finnur Oddsson, managing director of the Iceland Chamber of Commerce. Instead, he peers out at a $138 million construction project at the University of Reykjavik. Iceland, he points out, has been in this situation before. In early 2006, credit agencies criticized Icelandic banks for their lack of transparency and reliance on international capital markets. Analysts' opprobrium drove the krona down by 25% against...
...antiquated system could easily be accomplished by outsourcing to a provider, like Gmail, who already provides the majority of Harvard students with the e-mail tools they desire. FAS IT articulates various concerns with outsourcing, worrying about a loss of privacy and reliability. These fears seem overblown. If Gmail, or another provider, were used on a trial basis with a responsible privacy agreement, there does not seem to be a concrete reason to fear decreased autonomy or information leaks. Many other educational institutions have successfully turned to outside providers like Google and Microsoft for their e-mail needs. The biggest...
...life at home make her instantly sympathetic.This is how “American Teen” moves beyond its updated “Breakfast Club” scenario. Burstein manages to escape the limitations that ensnare the social stereotypes she examines, crafting a wholly believable world in which typically overblown high school problems are carefully counterbalanced by issues that are far more serious. Hannah lives with her grandmother because her mother has been diagnosed with severe depression, a sickness that Hannah fears may have been passed on to her after her boyfriend leaves her and she refuses to attend school...
...accounts of previous terrorists attacks in Xinjiang have left many confused, and details of such terrorist attempts are always vague. "It's hard for me to imagine China manufacturing fake evidence for non-existent terrorist attacks from scratch, but I do not exclude the possibility of the facts being overblown," said Bequelin, "China has deliberately confused terrorists with ordinary criminals, political organizations, and dissidents before, and has used it as an excuse for repression...