Word: ballooned
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Stub it out, already! SMOKERS who continue to puff away after having balloon angioplasty double their odds of a heart attack or early death...
...wear the snake pin--in lieu of a name tag--when meeting with Iraqi Deputy Prime Minister Tariq Aziz. Albright says the bumblebee reminds her of Muhammad Ali's motto, "Float like a butterfly, sting like a bee," which could well be her slogan too. Look for the balloon when the Secretary is feeling up, and for the Capitol when she is trying to be at her bipartisan best. Other brooches, like the spider web, she simply finds alluring...
Powell says the project "fit with my priorities," but he didn't want to be involved in a fuzzy-headed launch of a feel-good balloon that would simply drift away. "I said no to offers to chair studies, to sit on boards to examine the cities. I wanted concrete goals, a focus on kids, deliverable results and a way to continue beyond the summit." Convinced that Chambers and the other organizers wanted those things as well, he agreed to join Clinton and Bush at a White House ceremony on Jan. 24 to announce the summit...
...hard choice made easier. One of the largest studies yet on treating CLOGGED ARTERIES shows that both balloon angioplasty and more invasive coronary-bypass surgery yield the same quality of life and relief of symptoms for at least five years. One caveat: angioplasty patients may need the procedure repeated...
...exhibit that exemplifies the statement "Less is More." In Jill Reynolds' own words regarding The Shape of Breath, "It's about the three-dimensionality of language and breath--that those things exist in space, that [they are] not just flat text on a page or a cartoon balloon. Language has form and substance also; [it] exists like little bodies also." So make the trek down to MIT and watch as Jill Reynolds and her assistants make language come alive. You might never look at your sourcebook the same way again...