I've never enjoyed the end-of-the-year hoopla that surrounds December 31, but I do like welcoming in the new year. |
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The race, which generated a donation of 1 million cans of soup for charity, was part of the silliness that accompanies Super Bowl hoopla. |
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As usual, I'm more interested in observing the media coverage and surrounding hoopla than the actual sporting event. |
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This chart really puts it all into perspective and shows that all the hoopla over inflation returning is overdone. |
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The project culminates in a Battle of the Bands that has all the hoopla of a Rocky prizefight. |
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The children were so busy enjoying themselves at the pool that the caricature, hoopla, wheel of fortune, and other stalls wore a deserted look. |
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The crowds were entertained by an array of stalls and games, including the traditional hoopla and lucky dip. |
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Stalls include work stall, country produce, cake stall, white elephant, books, hoopla and teas. |
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That's a lot of high-profile hoopla for a record that's essentially a chronicle of economic and emotional poverty. |
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There was also a wide range of traditional sideshow attractions which included darts, hoopla and a coconut shy. |
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These seem to have been sidelined amidst all the hoopla surrounding the rights issue. |
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The channel packed in games such as shouting match and hoopla that caused a laugh riot among the crowd. |
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She kept herself busy playing whip a top, hoopla, marbles, hopscotch, hide and seek and oranges and lemons. |
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Most of the hoopla connected with the year 2000 was predominantly secular in origin and character. |
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Don't anticipate the same media hoopla that surrounded the events of two weeks ago. |
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When asked about the recent hoopla surrounding gay marriage, he barely musters enough interest to dismiss the conversation. |
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There were lots of stalls and games, including darts, skittles and a hoopla. |
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They discovered the effect of book clubs on sales was of greater financial significance than the hoopla created by a major marketing campaign. |
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She comes across as an empty-headed, weak woman in all this hoopla over her book. |
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Ralph Nader announced his latest run for the presidency, amid press hoopla. |
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All this hoopla surrounding one ugly little creature is a clear case of much ado about the wrong thing. |
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I dislike the game but I do have fond memories of all the high school hoopla that attends the sport. |
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The two week hype and hoopla leading up to the Super Bowl is enough to drive a sane person to drink. |
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In light of all this hoopla, one of my readers wrote me asking who might have leaked this memo. |
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For all the hoopla about personal video recorders, you'd think more people would be using them. |
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It has been a year, and despite all the big promises, the blue-ribbon commissions and the media hoopla, most states have not acted. |
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And new DVD releases are accompanied with an unending amount of excitement and marketing-driven hoopla. |
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This new francophone Michael Corleone made his first appearance in New York City yesterday with a lot of hoopla. |
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Aware of the hoopla that will dance attendance on the boy of the boy of the Brylcreem Boy, he will decline media attention before the Test. |
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The government's constant hoopla and all kinds of theatrics are attempts to delay examining the fundamental issue. |
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But this spring in Paris, the Mapplethorpe hoopla is taking an interesting turn. |
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That is the kind of human bridge-building these foreign trips with all the hoopla can produce. |
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With all the hoopla swirling around out here, their attitude was refreshing. |
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It all looked very different two years ago when the first 787 was rolled out with a great deal of hoopla. |
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There was a great hoopla that the markets were going to react to this because they had advance notice. |
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You come in, you're 14 years old, you haven't proved yourself, you haven't done anything, and yet you've got all this media hoopla around you. |
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Despite the fanfare and hoopla, there was a distinct sense of déjà-vu among old Middle East hands. |
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The hype and hoopla generated by the event did not excite everyone. |
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Three belugas spend the summer far away from home: much action and hoopla on Quebec's Lower North Shore! |
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Honourable senators, that might be a different tone than what you have heard in the hoopla surrounding the debate on this bill. |
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It's the best way to experience first hand the real excitement of a weekend of races and all the hoopla surrounding them! |
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It seemed clear that the Prime Minister was going to tough it out, hoping, no doubt, that the hoopla over the Olympics would quickly distract the attention of the electors. |
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If you want an affordable copy, your best bet is either to trawl the second hand bins and hope you get lucky, or else wait until the hoopla about Wanda has died down. |
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None of the hoopla seemed to have fazed the Iranian president, who loves to bask in controversy during his U.S. visits. |
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Should this hoopla be considered as a whole, as an indivisible monad? |
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I thought it was really terrific how he had boiled so much nonsense away and kept a particular track through the midst of all this confusion and hoopla and blah-blah. |
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The street will be packed with attractions and entertainment including a raffle, live bands, balloon race, hook-a-duck, candyfloss, face painting and hoopla. |
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When I finally saw the film, after over a year of hoopla surrounding it, its director, and the director's father, I found it to be a wholly unremarkable film. |
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In an industry filled with as much hype and hoopla as the dotcom world in its heyday, Biogen is a company with products, revenues, profits, and prospects. |
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There's a lot of hoopla, a lot of excitement at the beginning. |
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The hoopla surrounding a wedding can be pretty distracting for a while, but eventually you will get home from the honeymoon and reality will be waiting for you. |
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Holiday hoopla erupts when the Pumpkin King steals Christmas in Tim Burton's latest kookfest. |
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A fakeloo artist, a hoopla spreader, and a lad who had his cards rolled up inside sticks of tea, found on a dead man. |
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For the first time this year you can also have a go on 1950s vintage fairground attractions, flying frogs hoopla anyone? |
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For the first time this year, the museum also offered a 50s vintage fairground, with attractions such as flying frogs hoopla. |
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Not playing the hunger games of success, not undergoing the mechanical hoopla of PR, he could go on stubbornly being Kent Haruf, doing his job. |
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Much of the hoopla in your treatment of the correlation between wealth and happiness is thus at least spurious. Ranko Bon Motovun, Istria, CroatiaI believe a key point was omitted from your article. |
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The Libertarian candidate, Allen Buckley, focused his attacks on Mr Chambliss, but given the hoopla surrounding the Democratic vote in Georgia, I doubt Jim Martin lost many supporters to Mr Buckley. |
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As soon as the hoopla started with the passage of the law, branches of organisations like Occupy Paedophilia and Occupy Gerontophilia appeared in our city. |
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Then for another four weeks, as all the hoopla of the Turin Olympics died down, Patti had to get around on crutches without putting any weight on her injured leg. |
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They are responsible for maintaining a bubble of tranquillity in the hoopla of the Estuary. The general public can only feel privileged to discover the blue whale in this manner, in full respect of the approach limit. |
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Its focus is on Métis youth. This summer, the Metis National Youth Advisory Gazette was launched with hoopla and excitement from its North Battleford, Sask. |
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First, in spite of all the noise and hoopla that we have heard on the TV and read in the newspapers over the last few months, there has never been a successful case using embryonic stem cells. |
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But the hoopla over it reflects some strange and antiquated thinking. |
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Since it was just one woman and they would never tell us who it was, I never got into that hoopla. |
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They supply only their skills, and are paid royalties. While scorning the hoopla of traditional brands, the upstarts are racing to build brands of their own. |
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A CRAFTY scam artist cheated Blackpool tourists out of their holiday money by running a rigged hoopla stall on the Golden Mile. |
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Contact,'' a film based on a Carl Sagan novel about a radio astronomer who connects with extraterrestrial life, opens to much hoopla Friday. |
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Hoping that the hoopla over Sarbanes-Oxley will start to fade? |
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