Word: balloon
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...just a minute, the room sounds like it's full of students instead of teachers--everyone exclaims how cool it is and grabs a balloon...
Lenna Georgopoulos '97 wows the rest of the group by pushing a skewer through a balloon without popping...
...everywhere these days--in books, magazines, films, television, music videos and bus-stop perfume ads. It is printed on dial-a-porn business cards and slipped under windshield wipers. It is acted out by balloon-breasted models and actors with unflagging erections, then rented for $4 a night at the corner video store. Most Americans have become so inured to the open display of eroticism--and the arguments for why it enjoys special status under the First Amendment--that they hardly notice it's there...
...personal computing. By using Notes, teams of workers in different offices-or even different countries-can call the same documents to their computer screens and work on them together. Lotus commands fully 65% of all sales of groupware, which total about $500 million at present and are expected to balloon to $5 billion a year by the end of the decade. "Today, Notes is the only game in town," says Carter Lusher, a research director at the Gartner Group, which tracks the computer industry...
...fastest-growing items on the government's books is interest on its $4.8 trillion debt. This year the government will pay $235 billion in interest, an amount that exceeds its deficit of $176 billion. Without further deficit reduction, the Congressional Budget Office estimates, annual interest payments by 2002 would balloon to $334 billion -- money that goes to bondholders such as Ross Perot, who in 1992 reported that a chunk of his then $3.3 billion fortune was invested in low-risk government securities. Interest is one of the items targeted for massive cuts under G.O.P. budget plans -- $155 billion under Senator...