Word: balloon
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...would be a mistake to underestimate the task facing the two men. Their biggest challenge will be to erect a nationwide organization without upsetting the enormous volunteer corps that got the Perot balloon off the ground. In addition, the gauzy notion of a bipartisan campaign, run jointly by a Democrat and a Republican, sounds better in theory than in practice. Rollins and Jordan, never before having teamed up even in their wildest dreams, may not agree instantly on the best approach, for example, to urban blacks or Southern evangelicals. And getting along with Perot may be harder than getting along...
Hundreds of spectators gathered around a portable stage with an enormous rainbow-colored balloon to watch jugglers, comedians, musicians and mimes. A truck parked near the show offered ice cream and frozen yogurt, while PBHA members peddled Ben and Jerry's t-shirts...
Neither the White House nor Congress has begun to offer serious solutions to the economy's long-term troubles. On the contrary, both branches have permitted the budget deficit, which soaks up savings and hinders investment, to balloon to a projected $400 billion this year. And while the Administration once predicted that the deficit would disappear by 1996, it now foresees at least $200 billion worth of red ink for the next five years...
Such an operation, we soon learn, can be messy. In one case, a drug smuggler puts cocaine in a red balloon and flushes it down a toilet. At the end of the plumbing pipe sit two Santana lieutenants, who dutifully pick through excrement to retrieve the contraband...
...checkpoints on the roads, and while they allow local traffic in and out, they confiscate all but the smallest quantities of food and fuel. At the town of Kifri, 96 miles north of Baghdad, in outposts separated by a tense 500 yards., Iraqi troops confront bearded peshmerga guerrillas in balloon trousers and tightly wrapped turbans. "We have been suffering from two blockades," says Jalal Talabani, leader of the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan, one of the two leading political groups. "First the U.N. embargo directed at all of Iraq, and second the blockade Saddam is directing just against Kurdistan...