Word: balloon
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...addition to recapturing an old tradition,this year's Carnival also added a new essence aswell. "One thing I really like is that little kidscame by and enjoyed it," said Ehasz. With theirmothers standing by, children joined in on thetricks with the monkey or balloon-blowing with theclowns...
Accordingly, citizens' tax burdens would balloon to support the dead weight of these redundant yet autonomous bureaucracies. States with small populations would feel the inefficiencies most. California's bureaucracy would easily be able to handle Nevada's comparatively tiny needs, but no, Nevada has to have its own departments for its own block grants. States would be smart to combine their efforts, but then, isn't that exactly what they...
...recommended technique is to launch thebutter with a belt or cloth napkin. On specialdinner days, helium balloons work as well. "I sawsome guys do it," say one enthusiastic first-year."They weighted the balloon, and put butter on thetop...
...these was inflation theory, which says the universe expanded like a balloon on amphetamines before the cosmos was one second old. Then there was cold dark matter, hypothetical subatomic particles that may account for 99% of the mass of the universe and may relegate ordinary atoms-and the stars, planets and people they make up-to the status of a cosmic afterthought. Another notion described distortions in the very fabric of space and time, going by the name cosmic strings and cosmic textures. And lately theorists have revived an old idea known as hot dark matter, and an even older...
There is something uplifting in reading a success story, but what is to be gained from reading an anti-success story? Like watching a balloon deflate and sink slowly to the ground, reading Arty Nelson's first novel Technicolor Pulp is comforting, unthreatening and a slightly amusing way to pass...