Word: balloon
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Schlafly and her supporters celebrated at a balloon-festooned Over-the-Rainbow party, where the 1,400 guests pledged allegiance to the flag and listened to some 30 victory speeches. Said Conservative Digest Editor John Lofton: "I salute you fellows for doing to the ERA what Menachem Begin is doing to the P.L.O." And they applauded "special service" awards given to outstanding ERA opponents, among them the Rev. Jerry Falwell, Under Secretary of State James Buckley and Senator Jesse Helms...
...began as a "casual balloon" launched by American physicians during a meeting with Anatoly Dobrynin, the Soviet Ambassador to the U.S. Asked the Americans: Why not have doctors from the two superpowers discuss on Soviet television the medical consequences of nuclear war? "Why not?" Dobrynin responded. The result, an unprecedented hourlong program watched by an estimated 50 million people, attracted so much interest that Soviet authorities rebroadcast it last week...
...main ways that Californians have been financing the state's housing boom is with short-term loans in which virtually all of the principal comes due in a single so-called balloon payment, usually within two to five years. Homeowners had assumed that their houses would continue appreciating in value and that they would be able to borrow against the equity to pay off the balloon loan. But prices are now stagnating, and new loans are hard to get. Nearly $500 million of these balloon mortgages are coming due in California this year, and Shulman and other economists fear...
...those who have not been involved in "creative home financing" lately, a balloon mortgage includes a relatively low schedule of monthly payments, but then requires a large lump sum after a few years...
...other scientists were understandably cautious. In 1975 Berkeley Physicist P. Buford Price also thought he had found a monopole. Looking for cosmic rays, Price and three colleagues developed a multilayered plastic sandwich to record the tracks left by subatomic particles and launched the contraption over Iowa in a helium balloon. During three days, the particle detector recorded 75 hits, one much different from the rest. When Price published a paper claiming to have found a monopole "candidate," the scientific community's excitement soon gave way to skepticism. In the end, Price admitted he had been a bit hasty. Says...