Word: ballooned
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...indifference to the Republican hoopla in San Diego. And Kemp? "We'll kill him on his economic ideas," says a White House strategist. The Clinton campaign was already running TV spots last week blasting Dole's Kemp-flavored tax-cut ideas as a "risky, last-minute scheme that would balloon the deficit." And Kemp's charisma, say the President's advisers, will only make Dole seem more inert...
...threat of terrorism can never be entirely erased. Tightening airport security is like squeezing one end of a balloon: if airlines become too difficult a target, terrorists will point their weapons at a bulge elsewhere. "There is always," says international terrorism expert Victor LeVine, a professor at Washington University, "some window of opportunity." Whether an act of terrorism brought down TWA Flight 800 or not, some of those windows could be closed before tragedy can strike again...
...launched an over-the-phone life-insurance and health-insurance business in Britain called Virgin Direct; and his new British mutual fund is going gangbusters. As if all this weren't enough to keep him busy, in November he hopes to fly around the world nonstop in a balloon to set a new world record...
...like this first proposal," reports TIME Moscow correspondent Sally Donnelly, "since they have been fighting all this time to establish an independent republic. But at least the Russians are starting to talk. They are thinking about how to deal with the problem, offering concrete proposals. This trial balloon may keep the Chechens negotiating until the elections, which is what the Russians really want right now, anyway." Donnelly attributes Yeltsin's fresh burst of campaigning and election promises to the fact that he is getting more information now than he has in a long time. "The information reaching Yeltsin has been...
...like this first proposal," reports TIME Moscow correspondent Sally Donnelly, "since they have been fighting all this time to establish an independent republic. But at least the Russians are starting to talk. They are thinking about how to deal with the problem, offering concrete proposals. This trial balloon may keep the Chechens negotiating until the elections, which is what the Russians really want right now, anyway." Donnelly attributes Yeltsin's fresh burst of campaigning and election promises to the fact that he is getting more information now than he has in a long time. "The information reaching Yeltsin has been...