There's hype, there's bluster, there's exaggeration and the unmistakable flicker of a new urban legend.
Lastly, there are Chinese whispers , which make the Internet such a perfect vehicle for urban legend.
But contrary to a popular urban legend, it was not set up insure loans for anybody with a pulse.
We hope this policy making by urban legend trend doesn't spread to other areas, such as organ donation.
Vote rigging by entrenched political machines in cities like Chicago or Philadelphia is more than urban legend.
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Theories on just how the American crayfish found its way to the Middle East have reached urban legend status.
Unlike many of the worry-wart fears that mom expressed during my childhood, these are not simply a product of urban legend.
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All of which should put a bullet through the urban legend that small cap stocks outperform large cap stocks in the long run.
We've heard this idea before--as an urban legend, which Snopes.com dates to 1999, though our sense is it's been around longer than that.
For nearly three decades now since Iranian "students" invaded the US embassy in Tehran and took US hostages, sanctions against Iran have been a widely believed urban legend-and nothing more.
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It's a little like the urban legend about a garment vendor who sent a designer coat overseas to be copied, only to get back 10, 000 coats with an identical stain on the sleeve.
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The only urban legend here appears to be the conclusions of the study itself, which was widely touted in the print and electronic media as proving the superiority of the U.S. FDA to its European counterpart in approving cancer drugs.
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"The urban legend (that Facebook is losing younger users) flows more often than not from surveys people have done of younger users that indicate that they're using other social services ... much of the concern stems from the assumption that this is a zero-sum game, and that's not how we see it, " Ebersman said.
Some call it an enormous urban legend, but Super Bowl weekend is considered to be the largest sex trafficking event in the United States each year, a number estimated by the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children who says the 2010 Miami Super Bowl brought 10, 000 prostitutes to the city.
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You also touch on what has become, in some people's minds, urban legend, in other people's minds that big question mark, as to whether or not - and we saw it historically - and you talk about the, quote, bombing of the levees, the opening up of the waters to save other areas in the city and pouring it in on the 9th Ward, the poor section of New Orleans.
Knossos's enduring fascination derives as much from Evans's bold restoration of the palace, the centre of Europe's first urban civilisation, as from the raunchy legend of the Minotaur, the monstrous offspring of Queen Pasiphae's affair with a bull, who was shut up at Knossos in a labyrinth built by Daedalus, an early technological whizz.
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