The Myth Of Stars 06.12.02 Movie stars are absolutely necessary to launch a hit picture.
Despite our best efforts, the whole process of applying has become part of the myth too.
For instance, Paralympic athletes explode the myth that disabled people are physically frail and passive.
It is my hope to help dispel the myth that ideas are inherently good things.
This reinforced the myth of the best practice, and stimulated it to spread and persist.
This is how they perpetuate the myth of women as victims in need of government protection.
See my previous blog, the myth of a shareholder spring, for more on this.
The team also wanted to dispel the myth that the battle was merely Scotland versus England.
Actually, those New England town meetings were a far cry from the myth they inspired.
Brazil's President Fernando Henrique Cardoso, a sociologist, has always questioned the myth of racial democracy.
Agencies did little to suppress the myth of disaster victims dependent on external aid to survive.
Markoff, he said, single-handedly created the myth of Kevin Mitnick, which everyone is using to advance their own agendas.
Democratic folklore includes the myth that the Clinton tax increases led to the 1990s boom.
But to me the life of DiMaggio was always more interesting than the myth.
Among them, economist Doug Guthrie, who tried to debunk the myth of a hard landing.
The myth of bigger is better makes for a nice sound bite, but is rarely the case.
But in rebutting the myth that he was a simpleton or a chameleon, she underplays his contradictions.
Kaiser puts an astute mind to dissipating the myth that state intervention possibly can lead to prosperity.
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So much for the myth that larger spending on player costs automatically translates into victory on the field.
Do personal finance books written by women for women perpetuate the myth that women are bad with money?
No American need be lectured about the ARA. Americans love cars and love driving, so the myth goes.
CareerBuilder research also dispelled the myth that what happens in the recruitment process, stays in the recruitment process.
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Instead it has become a vehicle for myths - chief among them, the myth of salvation through science.
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The myth of an expansionary fiscal contraction, the idea that deficit-cutting would boost growth, has been largely dispelled.
In his renowned Redefining Global Strategy, Pankaj Ghemawat exploded the myth that internationalization has radically increased over time.
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Indeed, the empirical evidence makes hash of the myth that culture is most responsible for making the athlete.
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Despite its wobbly basis, the myth of mass panic remains steadfastly attached to The War of the Worlds programme.
All of these people stood to make money by supporting the myth that an investment in Enron made sense.
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The BoJ cannot afford to bust the myth they are expected to deliver.
The myth that tramps created tramp art still draws many collectors, Wertkin says.
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