Word: balloon
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...another appeal to sacrifice. Less than 48 hours after hitting up Americans for $246 billion in new taxes over four years, Clinton was already discussing the idea of a national sales tax as if it were a not too distant possibility. "I did not mean to float a trial balloon," Clinton said Friday, as the issue threatened to engulf his campaign to push his first round of tax proposals. Meanwhile in Washington, Clinton's Budget Director, Leon Panetta, brought up the likelihood of new taxes on guns, alcohol and tobacco. "It's a bit too early to say," Panetta said...
There are some great parodies of Bronte, Moliere and Shakespeare. But there are a few too many truly bad puns, along the order of "Virginity is like a balloon at the carnival...it pops at the first prick..." And there are far too many attacks by wolves and goblins...
...middle-class taxes, avoiding a gasoline-tax boost and carrying out other ancillary pledges. His numbers have never added up. Yet Clinton cannot just ditch either growth or deficit reduction. Spurring the economy into faster job creation is the core promise that got him elected, but letting the deficit balloon further could eventually put a stop to that very growth...
...Yale burst the Harvard balloon by taking a 17-6 victory and knocking Harvard out of the Ivy League championship...
Some MIT pranksters punctuated a 45-7 Harvard victory in The 1982 Game by inflating a huge balloon at midfield of The Stadium...