Word: ballooned
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...have the biggest tent up there... Four national entertainers. We haven't picked them yet, but they will be big-name entertainers... The television networks are going to be there... We are going to have a great barbecue to which you are all invited free. We may have balloon rides. And bring your families if you want to. There is going to be entertainment for the kids, face painting and games...
...Brookline St. resident reported to CPD that while driving on Portland and Broadway his windshield was smashed by a frozen water balloon thrown from a roof by several juveniles. No injuries were reported and all juveniles were identified...
...worst cardio-fitness program in this century was that of Egypt's King Farouk. The King weighed around 300 lbs.; he looked like an immense, saturnine party balloon. Staples of the royal diet: a few tablespoons of caviar, lobster thermidor, slabs of roast lamb, a cubic meter or so of trifle, a pound of chocolate, a magnum of champagne. Workout: two or three dancers from the chorus...
...trying to pad their already cushy salaries. And they argue that the doctors' bold stand could wind up hurting their patients. According to a June report released by the Health Insurance Association of America, collective bargaining by doctors for higher fees could cause health-care premiums to balloon as much as 11%, adding up to $80 billion annually to the cost of health care...
...place was real quiet in terms of politics," he says. "It was as if the air had been taken out of the balloon...