Word: ballooned
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...genuine sympathy; but Stevens manages, conveying Augusta's sadness with a knowing honesty reminiscent of Edna O'Brien. Augusta cannot bear thoughts of her husband's existing in the world without her. "It was the fact that he wasn't dead that worked me like a pin on a balloon," she says, "stabbing me and leaving me airless. Flat...
...well below the $2.2 billion that each of the first 20 B-2s cost. Even minus their hefty development cost, the first batch cost more than $1 billion a plane. But Northrop's new price tag is dubious, and the bargain questionable. Defense experts expect the final price to balloon. More important, U.S. taxpayers could be buying a flying white elephant with scant strategic value because the key weapons it requires to justify the investment don't exist...
HAROLD ICKES DOESN'T LEAVE THINGS to chance. While he was running the Democratic Convention in New York City in 1992, he insisted the cashier's check for the confetti vendor be held in escrow in case the climactic balloon drop following Bill Clinton's acceptance speech flopped. Ickes' tactic forced the balloon man to climb into the rafters to cut the netting with a large knife. The sight of an armed man climbing through the lights at Madison Square Garden drove Clinton's security detail to distraction. "The Secret Service guys nearly shot the guy out of the rafters...
...moved on and left the council behind. The council is only nominally a student government, and it is only by convention that council input is sought in the administration's decision-making and ex officio appointments. When the administration talks to the council, it is talking to a deflated balloon that students stopped caring about a long time...
...some researchers, including Wennberg and Anderson, have been able to take partial measurements at greater altitudes using balloons. "Balloons have been used for years to go to 120,000 feet," says Podolske, "but there are three limitations. You have no control over where the balloon will go, you often have to wait for the right winds and you only get a vertical profile [because the balloon goes up and down...