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...SIGNS ARE TENTATIVE; THE EVIdence is sometimes shaky. But finally a consensus is building that the ailing economies of Europe and Japan may be limping, slowly and painfully, toward recovery after years of recession. The balloon of prosperity is not fully off the ground, but hopes are lifting...
...took the Faculty Council all of a few minutes to shoot the idea down--with virtually no debate. As Faculty Council member and sociology professor Theda Skocpol said," [The proposal] went over like a lead balloon...
...final enjoyment. I might have guessed from finals period that the end of the year would prove an insufficient capstone. Presently enough, this year's Quad Howl was a travesty. Since sophomore year bonfires and spontaneous tackle football have been standards during the primal yell. Big rubber water balloon throwers, streakers shaped like big rubber water balloons, and reams of toilet paper, have been reliable staples every year. But they were in pitifully short supply this time around. I had purchased throat lozenges days before in anticipation of being hoarse from shouting "your momma" jokes and cracks like "your house...
...went over like a lead balloon," Skocpolsaid...
...same time," he says, "whenever somelarge balloon seems to be floating down the streetwith word 'pomposity' on it, we have a certainobligation to do something about that balloon...