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The group is said to have overplayed its fame by appearing in too many commercials.
So concerns that a weak dollar will spark inflationary pressures are overplayed.
But his enemies, intent on proving a pattern of behavior and destroying him with whichever scandal was at hand, lumped them together and overplayed the lesser charges.
That machine would still be dominating the debate--had it not been for Newt and the radicals who overplayed the mandate and made the American people edgy.
Chatterbox hears that the lawyer for Clinton secretary Betty Currie was irritated that President Clinton overplayed Currie's initial denial of the Feb. 6 New York Times story regarding her testimony before Kenneth Starr's grand jury....