By comparison, the exchange this week between Soulja Boy and Fabolous, a far worthier adversary, was a minor dust-up.
According to Pitman, this finding indicates that long-dormant fears can reawaken and might explain why Kathleen's relatively minor dust-up with the bike messenger set off memories of her earlier, deeper terror after the carjacking and sexual assault.
Last week, he created a minor dust-up by telling Britain's Guardian newspaper that Edward J. Snowden, the national security contractor who leaked classified documents, could argue that he was "appealing to a higher law," but later condemned the leaks.
But that was a minor dust-up compared with the fury of the foreign business community last month as they discovered two dozen tax proposals tucked away in the country's fiscal budget — initiatives that they say could leave them responsible for billions of dollars in taxes they had not anticipated.
If he thought the mini-industry spawned by his Everest book -- competing books, death threats and continuing Web battles -- was a nuisance, he may one day look back on that experience as a minor dust-up compared with what could follow his book questioning religion.
This minor dust-up serves as a reminder of the embeddedness of economic transactions.
The minor dust-up in the House of Representatives today is a "controversy" over some hyperbolic rhetoric used by Alan Grayson, a freshman Democrat.
During fabrication, that wax gathers dust, plus stray hairs (animal and human), a few paw prints (also animal and human), some errant brush marks and other minor debris.
Despite being in one of the most sensitive, conflict-prone regions in the world, the president and his team have been plagued by gaffes, minor diplomatic dust-ups, major information leaks, and everything in between.
Most perfluorocarboxylates other than PFOA appeared exclusively linear, but in a minority of dust samples PFNA had up to four minor branched isomers, whereas PFHxA, PFDA, PFUnA, and PFDoA each had up to two minor branched isomers.
