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Example sentences for: ballooning

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The Age of Melbourne headlined its editorial "Putin: the man who rose without trace," and said, "Public attention no longer focuses primarily on the ailing Mr Yeltsin's erratic policy-making, or even on the widespread corruption, ballooning debt and huge disparities of wealth that have arisen during the over-rapid privatisation of the Russian economy.
Fossett (who's worth only $25 million to $50 million) is equally insouciant: He has driven in the Le Mans 24-Hour Race, raced sled dogs in the Iditarod, completed the Ironman triathlon, run an ultramarathon, and set the ballooning distance and endurance records.
Although the Post quotes an expert labeling this a "significant ideological shift," a NYT story on the announcement, run inside, focuses instead on China's inability to grow fast enough to assure jobs for its ballooning workforce.
No one has ever bothered to break the ballooning record because there's no reason to do it.
(No ballooning story is complete without reference to Phileas Fogg in Around the World in Eighty Days . So here it is.)