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T. Boone Pickens backed off of his much ballyhooed mega-wind project in Texas this week, citing the declining cost of natural gas.

Dell's lack of retail presence, once ballyhooed as a benefit, has turned into a grave disadvantage.

But in the weeks since the social network's much-ballyhooed - and ultimately botched - initial public offering, the relationship has soured.

Dell's lack of retail presence, once ballyhooed has a benefit, has turned into a grave disadvantage.

Is our political performance an argument for the superiority of our ballyhooed democracy over their one-party state?

The much-ballyhooed leveraging of the euro-zone rescue fund agreed on in October is going nowhere.

If there was any kind of Tiger fatigue after the ballyhooed Monday press conference in Augusta, Nike overcame it.

Confusion surrounds the future of a much- ballyhooed extension of Shanghai's magnetic levitation (maglev) train service.

The recently ballyhooed 'stress tests' on banks are nothing more than checking how well a bank can weather differing levels of default risk.

Dennis Rodman, the muscular, tattooed, and much ballyhooed player formerly of the Chicago Bulls.

Plenty of shoals up ahead, of course, including the ballyhooed stress test results due out next week.

Japan's ballyhooed bureaucracy sought to conquer this frontier through traditional channels.

The much-ballyhooed US economy became entirely dependent for growth on easy consumer credit and shaky mortgages.

Otherwise this will be just another much-ballyhooed summit that fails to save the euro.

The Obama administration's much-ballyhooed Asian turn is essentially a response to the rise of China.

And the much ballyhooed 'stress' testing of banks, results of which are due Friday, may already be priced into the market.

The ads ballyhooed the book's virtues.

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a much-ballyhooed convergence ahead of monetary union across Europe;