Word: balloonfuls
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...budgets cut from $448.6 million to $367 million in the last two years, state colleges have had to raise tuition. The average in-state tuition is now $2,700, after an increase of 10.8 percent over the last year. Students at Framingham State College have seen their tuition costs balloon by nearly $1,000 just this year. This tuition explosion means more loans and longer work hours for students who want to graduate within six years. And for many students attending school in the nation’s sixth most expensive public system, it means no more college...
...Today a hospital record showing that Atkins weighed 195 lbs. when he was admitted in April, a detail that is supported by photographs of Atkins taken in the weeks before his mishap. While he was on life support, the Atkins camp claimed, he retained fluids that caused him to balloon 63 lbs. "He became essentially unrecognizable, he was so bloated," said Dr. Stuart Trager, chairman of the Atkins Physicians Council. That IV, it turns out, is bad for the figure...
...balance of probabilities"; keeping evidence secret from defendants; requiring defense counsel, and even judges, to be picked from a panel with security clearances; and eliminating juries. Civil-liberties advocates are horrified. "It's very disturbing," says Barry Hugill, spokesman for the advocacy group Liberty. Blunkett floated his trial balloon "the same week Tony Blair was announcing an inquiry into intelligence flaws concerning Iraq." Indefinite detention "on the assumption that the intelligence services will be automatically right begs credulity...
...Baseman design--balloon-animal shapes and clown faces, vividly colored--has been filled out by director Timothy Bjorklund with such loving congestion that you'll need to see the film twice to get all the fun. (Look for the Mickeys!) As CGI cartooning takes over the world--Disney just closed down its traditional-animation studio in Florida--Teacher's Pet finds a fresh and frisky approach to doing things the old, Walt way. --By Richard Corliss
PREGNANT MALES Jokes about who wears the pants in the family are a corny stand-up staple. Tell that to the sea horse. It is the male who becomes pregnant, blows up like a balloon and delivers the young. The male Darwin frog swallows fertilized eggs and broods the young in his mouth. Ditto for the Japanese cardinal fish. In fact, males of many species--fish and fowl--are in charge of child care...