"Some of the overstated bling has become a bit irrelevant, and Italy is beginning to understand how the world is working," Ms. McKee said of the progress of a brand like Bottega Veneta, with its more "intellectual" appeal.
Overstated claims about a ban on hamburgers could potentially become an effective tactic, Vice's Harry Cheadle wrote on Thursday, because they attract plenty of news coverage while also forcing Democrats to go on the defensive and explain that, no, they're not really trying to outlaw ground beef.
Ahold's shareholders planned to meet with executives today for the first time since an accounting scandal now estimated at $880 million in overstated earnings became public in February.
The biofuels industry said the risk of those crops morphing into weed problems is overstated, noting that proposed biofuel crops, while they have some potential to become weeds, are not plants that inevitably turn invasive.
But the damage Wakefield has done cannot be overstated: vaccine denialism became a central issue in American public health as a result of his study.
The ideals exposed in the wildly overstated "Gadfly" -- the protagonist later becomes a heroic revolutionary -- took hold of Chinese youth.
The future of Royal Ahold, the world's third-largest retailer behind Wal-Mart Stores and Carrefour of France, became clouded Feb. 24 when the company reported that it had overstated profits by $500 million in 2001 and 2002.
It was crime and the fear of violence, however paranoid or overstated, that impelled the rise of Richard Nixon, and of George Wallace, and fuelled the paranoia about cities that became a staple of the American political diet for decades.
[Derivatives are] financial weapons of mass destruction.. Derivatives generate reported earnings that are often wildly overstated and based on estimates whose inaccuracy may not be exposed for many years.. Large amounts of risk have becomes concentrated in the hands of relatively few derivatives dealers... which can trigger serious systematic problems.
We have witnessed polls that consistently overstated Labour support and many that overstated support for Remain.
Call it overstated understatement.
