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In the opening paragraph of his New York Times op-ed, Brinkley opined: "It's as if suddenly, an entire generation's optimism is deflated, and all that is left is the limp reality of growing old."
But the scare was deflated by reports that 1) air-traffic controllers and the 727 crew bore the blame for the first incident; 2) the pilot who alleged the second incident still hasn't filed a report; and 3) near-collision reports between military and civilian planes have actually fallen sharply in this decade.
The environmental panic over deformed frogs was deflated.
But by February 1994, the plan had collapsed, and its failure deflated both the superhighway hype and Malone's reputation as an irresistible force.
Polling has whittled politics into a science, and money has monstrously deflated the importance of grassroots support.