And the technology's credibility has not been helped, many experts agree, by exaggerated claims for its effectiveness.
In Latin America, the growth was marred by exaggerated protectionism and bloated, but inefficient, states, culminating in the debt crisis.
"Trapped by exaggerated demands, unnatural ambition and consumerism, you have forgotten the value and power of a human touch, a word of praise, a chat with a mate.
Meanwhile, the young male's peer group is exerting a prosexual influence, and his social status is enhanced by his sexual exploits or by exaggerated reports thereof.
In Cairo, especially, women face daily sexual harassment, and for Western women, the problem is magnified by exaggerated assumptions about their sexual permissiveness.
Kumar doesn't hang around: there's lots in this show, and he clips through it, powered by exaggerated frustration that his life, and the world, aren't turning out as expected.
Local communities aren't being fooled by exaggerated claims about economic benefits and strong regulations and they won't be bought off by bribes from an increasingly desperate industry that's rapidly losing the argument".
Spain's economy minister, Elena Salgado, smarting from a cut in the country's credit rating from Standard & Poor's, insisted it would meet its tough deficit target and accused rating agencies of being too swayed by exaggerated eurozone problems.
An informed citizenry is not rushed to war by exaggerated threats, but instead demands that leaders clearly articulate the case for war, and only then decides if war is necessary.
There are meandering and implausible stories, none with happy endings; intricately detailed street maps of makebelieve cities on which I worked silently for hours; and countless crayon drawings of grinning girls with shoulder-length hair and U-shaped smiles, their stick figures fleshed out only by exaggerated biceps.
A10 The rise of the Lincoln Group, the firm that won contracts with the United States military to produce propaganda in Iraq, has been built in part by exaggerated claims about its capabilities, according to interviews with current and former employees and a review of company documents.
