Word: ballooned
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...BRUNSWICK, CANADA: Millionaire adventurer Steve Fossett's attempt to be the first person to circle the globe nonstop in a balloon ended Wednesday with a forced landing in a Canadian farmer's field, just 1,800 miles into the trip. The 51-year-old Fossett, who has climbed some of the world's tallest peaks, set records in ballooning and sailing and completed Alaska's 1,100-mile Iditarod Sled Dog Race, lifted off from South Dakota's Black Hills early Monday and immediately ran into trouble. A faulty autopilot system, extreme cold and a dead heater left him with...
...five-day treks through the West. One hundred winners of a sweepstakes drawing, who must testify they are smokers over 21, will be flown to the train with their guests and receive $1,000 mad money. They will take side trips on horseback, white-water raft and hot-air balloon. They will see private shows by country singers and rodeo stars and savor a guilty pleasure few trains now offer: smoking catarrhs--sorry, smoking cars--galore. There will also be a few smoke-free areas...
...year-old and a wide-awake parent. The gifted artist, whose books Castle and Cathedral brought medieval architecture to life, starts with a farmer and his horse taking a load of melons to market and winds up dealing with a runaway train, a lost pig, an escaped hot-air balloon and more. All logical, too, if your eyes are sharp...
...centerpiece of Forbes' campaign is the crowd-pleasing 17% flat tax for individuals and businesses. To voters in Iowa and New Hampshire, this idea has become his identity. Forbes is no longer the mild-mannered son of that balloon-flying, motorcycle-riding, Elizabeth Taylor-escorting millionaire; he's the Flat Tax Man. At the Budweiser booth at a trade show in Manchester, New Hampshire, a fellow gripping a cold one shouted at Forbes, "Hey, I saw you on TV this morning with the flat tax!" Notes Joel Slemrod, a tax expert who teaches at the University of Michigan Business School...
...council should have realized that a silly project like "Spirit Week" would go over like a lead balloon on this campus. It should not have squandered our precious money and its puny reserve of political capital on something it might have anticipated would end up in its expansive warehouse of failures...