The hoo-hah in the tabloids over his wearing a green anorak at the wedding was certainly overblown.

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The resulting hoo-hah also sparked lawsuits from vexed customers and left Sony BMG parleying with lawyers over an appropriate settlement.

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They said the hoo-hah over his sacking of his diary secretary, allegedly to create a job for his mistress, was overblown.

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The selection process is currently frozen because of a hoo-hah about the selection process for a new Commission office head in Athens.

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And they said that his catastrophic visit to India last October was overblown, as was the hoo-hah over his catastrophic visit to Israel earlier this year.

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They said the hoo-hah over the abandonment of his wife, and his marriage to his mistress, allegedly on the orders of the prime minister's press spokesman, was overblown.

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The hoo-hah about the hurricane is perhaps the most damaging.

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Certainly the hoo-hah this deal has created in Britain would be astonishing to Americans, used to American companies making big political donations in return for helpful treatment from politicians.

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There was Antennagate, which created so much hoo-hah around the iPhone 4 launch that the company actually held a special press event to address the issue, and then offered to send customers free bumpers or covers.

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