Deficits ballooned after Reagan cut taxes; they shrank and eventually turned into surpluses after Bill Clinton raised taxes, then ballooned again after George W. Bush's tax cuts.
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That number has since ballooned to more than 257 million.
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The state's giveaways have only ballooned since the original agreement.
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Uber's valuation, of course, has since ballooned to $66 billion.
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It's not clear how the loan ballooned to that size.
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Chrysler 200 inventories ballooned to 148 days' supply on Jan.
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Despite campaign promises of fiscal conservatism, his office's budget ballooned.
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Then they rapidly ballooned into whoppers the size of buses.
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His season ERA has ballooned to 4.70 in the process.
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Within two days, the donations ballooned to more than $17,000.
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Kaepernick's protest, initially overlooked, ballooned into a massive national story.
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U.S. student loan debt has ballooned to $1.4 trillion today.
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In 6900, the number of hyperpartisan counties ballooned to 2628.
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All international trade ballooned since 22019, not just within NAFTA.
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With Sunday's loss, his E.R.A. this season ballooned to 6.95.
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Spending on government salaries also ballooned as the government grew.
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The U.S. trade deficit would have ballooned to frightening levels.
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With the surge of applications, the processing backlog has ballooned.
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By then, the number of Democrats had ballooned to 391.
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SIJS applications ballooned following the 2014 surge in unaccompanied minors.
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That number has now ballooned to more than 28 million.
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Corporate profits ballooned, and retail investors rushed into the market.
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The number of states with similar laws has since ballooned.
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But the number of phones ballooned from 11m to 6bn.
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At just 2271 feet tall, Stancil ballooned to 0003 pounds.
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As the Ukraine scandal quickly ballooned, progressive activists got restless.
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The sum has ballooned with interest to nearly $1 million.
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Since that first post by "Q," the movement has ballooned.
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It's true that the U.S. debt ballooned under President Obama.
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Fliedner responded, "Have at it," and things ballooned from there.
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BTW, the docs say her tab has ballooned to $310,921.20.
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As the Guardian reports, Google searches for "Bendigo" ballooned almost immediately.
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Health spending has ballooned, but actual health outcomes have not improved.
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The amount due has now ballooned, due to interest, to $248,553.
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But the upgrades progressed, and the amount ballooned to $15 million.
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By 2017, their value had ballooned to half a trillion dollars.
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It started as a joke, he says, but then it ballooned.
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" But by late 2011, "that balance had ballooned to $550 billion.
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JPMCEBD have ballooned by 100 basis points in the past year.
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During the same time, medical, childcare and college costs have ballooned.
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This is all the more uncomfortable because household debt has ballooned.
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In the meantime, his student debt has ballooned to over $100,000.
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But Walmart's overall sales grew 3%, and digital sales ballooned 40%.
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In two years, that balance ballooned to about $650,000 with interest.
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That innocent mistake has since ballooned into a multibillion-dollar clusterfuck.
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They were ballooned by credulous, sympathetic and wildly optimistic media coverage.
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That said, Faraday Future's debts have also ballooned in recent months.
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For the industry, personal loan balances have ballooned in recent years.
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By 2014, that figure had ballooned to approximately $10,238 per capita.
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Around Portuguese food, though, his appetite ballooned to "typical Yank"-size.
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His seven-point loss two years before ballooned to 19 points.
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Amounts owed have ballooned, thanks to interest costs and collection fees.
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While the stimulus helped stoke growth, the country's debt burden ballooned.
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By that point, West Virginia's cushion had ballooned to 21-23.
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The book, both compendium and commentary, ballooned to nearly 500 pages.
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While average wedding costs have ballooned, however, guest lists have shrunk.
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In a matter of days, their $200 goal ballooned into $7,000.
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That number ballooned to over 7,000 on Tuesday, Al Jazeera reported.
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Costs had ballooned, and the surveillance systems suffered from technical difficulties.
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As the number of Irish immigrants ballooned, so did bank deposits.
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The debt of the NFIP has ballooned to nearly $25 billion.
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The same year, Uber Eats ballooned 149 percent to $1.5 billion.
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Operating expenses also ballooned, dragging the company further into the red.
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By June, the service's subscriber total had ballooned to 250 million.
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By the end of practice, the coach's left thumb had ballooned.
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Still, the rumor ballooned out of control for a few days.
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Captain America's pecs sometimes ballooned during Mr. Liefeld's run on the character.
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And by the time doctors saw him, his knee had ballooned up.
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Mastodon has ballooned into an even wider web of (mostly connected) communities.
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Moon's church ballooned into a multimillion-dollar business empire over the years.
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He grew up in poverty; later he failed drug tests and ballooned.
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As height as increased, the league's skill and athleticism has also ballooned.
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The U.S. soybean stockpile has ballooned to record levels during the dispute.
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The geographic area in which anti-choice politicians held sway also ballooned.
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Fister's first-inning ERA in his starts this season ballooned to 10.13.
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The donations ballooned to thousands and then tens of thousands of dollars.
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Market capitalization ballooned to $400 billion, growing by a multiple of 30.
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Debt levels among Americans of all ages — especially the elderly — have ballooned.
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His secret project ballooned to 12 acres of courtyards and twisting passages.
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This subreddit ballooned to nearly 90,000 subscribers before Reddit shut it down.
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The antipsychotic she takes causes insatiable hunger and her weight has ballooned.
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With unemployment skyrocketing, the number has ballooned in just the past week.
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That ballooned the federal deficit and the debt needed to cover it.
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The trade deficit has ballooned to nearly $60 billion in China's favor.
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And credits have ballooned to their greatest lengths in the past decade.
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Selling, general and administrative costs ballooned almost 50 percent to $1.5 billion.
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Just one year later, in 1998, Amazon's revenue ballooned to $610 million.
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During the same time, medical, childcare and college costs have all ballooned.
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Retailing has faltered, housing has flatlined and the trade deficit has ballooned.
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As the pendulum swung further toward treating pain, opioid-related deaths ballooned.
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So she created a Facebook page, which ballooned into Moms Demand Action.
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But Jurado ballooned his shot over the crossbar and into the stands.
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Finally, in March, it was released for iOS, and its popularity ballooned.
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Businesses closed, underground explosions freaked everyone out, lawsuits piled up, and costs ballooned.
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Corporate debt has ballooned in China in recent years, to around $18 trillion.
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Sunrun's battery sales ballooned last October, when the shutoffs peaked, a spokesperson said.
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Her hand ballooned, her fingers blistered and bled, but she wouldn't — couldn't — stop.
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Perhaps unsurprisingly, Tamil Nadu's state debt ballooned by 92% between 2010 and 2015.
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Under QE the ECB's balance sheet has ballooned to about 20 trillion euros.
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Healthcare in the U.S. has ballooned into a massive industry worth $7003 trillion.
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The effort soon ballooned into the most ambitious film project of all time.
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But trade between Africa and China has ballooned over the last two decades.
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As a result, our trade deficit ballooned to nearly $800 billion a year.
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Esports has ballooned into a billion-dollar industry, and that includes the FGC.
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One was described as looking like "the elephant man" after his head ballooned.
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The average payment demand ballooned from $294 to $1,077, a 266 percent increase.
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Now, a few months later, it has ballooned to 900 million monthly users.
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Portland's lead ballooned to 20-5 on a tip-in by Maurice Harkless.
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Under QE the ECB's balance sheet has ballooned to about 4.65 trillion euros.
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Inflation-adjusted federal subsidies to students ballooned from $85033 billion to $154 billion.
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It had six members then, but it's now ballooned to number 96 lawmakers.
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The burden of student debt has ballooned to more than $1 trillion nationally.
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The staff ballooned, quadrupling from 10 to 40 by the end of 2017.
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By the summer, that number may have ballooned to two dozen or more.
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Republican spending at Trump-owned properties has ballooned since the president took office.
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Increasing regulations have led to insurance options with limited choices and ballooned costs.
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The totals have ballooned as no one has hit either jackpot since October.
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In the intervening years, the ethanol industry has ballooned into an economic juggernaut.
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He ballooned from about 215 pounds to well over 400 pounds, records show.
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But the tour's national popularity pushed the brand forward and ballooned its sales.
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Mr. Xi has talked about economic reform, but debt ballooned under his watch.
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Biden's lead over Sanders ballooned and his path to the nomination looks clear.
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The availability of deferments for men attending college and in professional fields ballooned.
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As federal deficits ballooned, inflation declined — and all the while the economy grew.
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Editorial budgets ballooned in the days when S. I. Newhouse was in charge.
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The next moment, it evokes a fetus ballooned in a crocheted lemon net.
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The deal seems to have worked: ePacket's usage has ballooned in recent years.
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What else could explain a $93 million project that ballooned to $1.7 billion?
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The loan of about $5,200 had ballooned to nearly $17,000 by early 2015.
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After the American invasion in 2001, the base ballooned into a small suburb.
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Amazon's shipping expenses ballooned, but revenue soared so much that no one minded.
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Canopy's stock has ballooned 114% this year, but fell over 4% on Wednesday.
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Gross debts ballooned to $3207bn from $250bn at the start of the year.
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Total operating costs ballooned 80 percent in the nine months to last September.
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And inflation has ballooned to 1 million percent, making money all but worthless.
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I bristled, I stiffened, I ballooned to twice my natural size with indignation.
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What started as a community of 10 users has ballooned to nearly 10,000 people.
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He walked three and fanned five as his ERA ballooned from 3.80 to 5.20.
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However, the price ballooned bigger and bigger, and it was reduced to a prototype.
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Hundreds of tips poured in and a reward ballooned to $100,000 in the search.
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The number of molecules approved for clinical trials in China has ballooned (see chart).
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In the past 20 years, college sports has ballooned into a multibillion dollar industry.
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That figure went up to 103% in 2014 and ballooned to 70% last year.
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Under the Obama administration, the debt had ballooned from $10.6 trillion to $19.5 trillion.
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In the ensuing decades, that figure slowly ballooned to three times the monthly pay.
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Ticket prices were slashed and the number of people wealthy enough to travel ballooned.
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But the coverage hasn't deterred whoever is filing these fake comments, which have ballooned.
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The lead ballooned to 78-48 before the Cavaliers scored the final seven points.
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His weight, he explains, had ballooned as a result of years of being bullied.
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Spellman followed with a deep 3-pointer and the lead ballooned to 54-29.
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My self-consciousness has really only ballooned: Don't ask me to go to Zumba.
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On Ms Rousseff's watch it ballooned from 21950% of GDP to a terrifying 21999%.
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The number of jobs requiring occupational licenses has ballooned in the last 50 years.
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The maintenance backlog has ballooned so much thanks to the misaligned incentives politicians face.
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By fall 2018, the cost of completion had reportedly ballooned to over $1 billion.
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Sentence lengths have ballooned over the past few decades, driving the mass incarceration crisis.
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Ramirez's ERA ballooned from 2.00 to 3.44, and his 17-game scoreless streak ended.
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In recent years, the number of fashion brands holding events at Coachella has ballooned.
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The security state ballooned, and the war on terror blossomed into a thousand atrocities.
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Over the weekend, the number ballooned to 250, with a 50-person waiting list.
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But as the field has ballooned to 18 candidates, she's struggled to break through.
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It is the period to even appear on the waiting list that has ballooned.
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And the "spread" ballooned over 65 bps -- one of its biggest daily moves ever.
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That has ballooned to over 100% of GDP and is about to get bigger.
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This year, that number ballooned to 116, according to a spokesman for the academy.
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The Pacers' lead ballooned to as many as 23 points during the third quarter.
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Cases of infection ballooned to 440 across China, an official said on Wednesday morning.
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The number of people on hospital waiting lists has ballooned to nearly five million.
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In only a few days, three confirmed cases ballooned to 215, with six deaths.
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In London, house prices ballooned by 210 percent in the 20 years preceding 2017.
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Trump's tax cuts and increased fiscal spending have ballooned the U.S. government's red ink.
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The lead ballooned to 27 points at 110-90 with an 11-0 run.
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During the time the organization has grown, personal debts in the U.S. have ballooned.
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The Fed's balance sheet ballooned to more than $4 trillion following the financial crisis.
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Debt ballooned, and in 1982 Mexico defaulted on its debts, with others to follow.
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It has also ballooned beyond the CCTV show with smaller events around the country.
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As a category, exchange traded funds have ballooned in recent years, amassing $2.6 trillion.
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Over time his riches ballooned to as much as $27 billion, according to Forbes.
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A year later, the average spread has ballooned to 335bp, according to LPC data.
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When four big casinos closed in 2014, jobs became even more scarce and foreclosures ballooned.
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Finally, government borrowing has also ballooned as a percentage of GDP over the last decade.
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He walked three and struck out six as his ERA ballooned from 3.86 to 4.46.
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We also dig into a gift to Marin County, California, that unexpectedly ballooned in size.
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The platform quickly ballooned to nearly 3 million community members in a short few months.
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It does, however, appear to have ballooned amid vape crackdowns over the past few months.
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But the amount of money it lost also ballooned, growing about fourfold to $443 million.
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The number of Tesla vehicles on the road has ballooned in the past few years.
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"It just feels squishy," she says, tugging at the ballooned-out skin on her neck.
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But the debt ballooned as the port's main business (shipments of coal and steel) collapsed.
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That explains why Indonesia's palm-oil industry has ballooned since these farmers arrived on Sumatra.
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An initial call-out to friends has ballooned into a festival that has grown exponentially.
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Expenses ballooned in pursuit of growth, exacerbating concerns the company could generate long-term profit.
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Partly as a result of the accessibility of the #Ham4Ham shows, Hamilton ballooned in popularity.
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The budget deficit is 4% of GDP and public debt has ballooned to over 50%.
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The original $500 million cost per launch of the rocket has ballooned to $1.5 billion.
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The budget stalemate has ballooned Illinois' unpaid bill pile to $14.65 billion as of Friday.
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That sum ballooned to nearly $15 billion a few months after the lawsuit was filed.
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And while the cost ballooned, no one has ever had to justify the massive cost.
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Before it changed the rules, the typical credit card contract had ballooned to 30 pages.
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Since 1950, the world's urban population has ballooned to over 3.9 billion from 403 million.
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Meanwhile, the tech industry has ballooned to more than 835,000 employees across the Bay Area.
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The security team overseen by Perrotta, a former Secret Service agent, has ballooned under Pruitt.
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Installation of the system was completed in 2007, after costs had ballooned to $140 million.
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From 1993 to 2013, greenhouse gas emissions due to agriculture ballooned by over a gigaton.
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By 2017, following the oil crash, Congo's debt levels had ballooned to 118% of GDP.
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The average time to confirm a transaction has ballooned from 10 minutes to 43 minutes.
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Facebook users ballooned from about two million in 2014 to more than 30 million today.
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The weekend's case tally ballooned, veering toward nearly 600 cases and close to 20 deaths.
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His tax cuts ballooned C.E.O. salaries and stock buybacks, but real wages are still frozen.
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One of them was described as looking like "the elephant man" after his head ballooned.
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And salaries for coaches at major football and basketball programs have ballooned in recent years.
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In fact, the backlog has ballooned by more than 200,000 since Mr. Trump became president.
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After chickens ballooned up for several decades, some industrial growers vowed to stop the growth.
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This time, those sleeping fewer than five hours a night had ballooned to 23 percent.
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As it ballooned, Google's research group has nabbed a shocking number of computing's biggest brains.
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But both firms' distributions ballooned as Zoom's stock price went through the roof this month.
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As a result, my own list has now ballooned to more than three dozen people.
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As a result, untaxed offshore earnings by United States companies have ballooned to $2.6 trillion.
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Greece's debt has ballooned to 180 percent of economic output — the largest in the eurozone.
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In a matter of weeks, coronavirus cases ballooned at the Life Care Center of Kirkland.
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The Failing N.Y. Times reports that 'the size of the company's lobbying staff has ballooned.
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NATO has ballooned from 12 founding members to 29, stretching as far East as Montenegro.
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Organizers say interest in the group has ballooned in the weeks since Mr. Trump's election.
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"Investors like the concession," the source said, adding that orders ballooned to near $13 billion.
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Since then, the company's fortunes have soared as membership increased and the stock price ballooned.
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But it proved more complicated to tailor each variant for its service, and costs ballooned.
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What if BlackPlanet—which predated even Friendster—had ballooned into a global diasporic nerve center?
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But Lim's explanation about the lease obligations spelt out how the government's liabilities had ballooned.
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That number ballooned this week as centrist Democrats and vulnerable freshman lawmakers joined their ranks.
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The project's costs have ballooned to nearly $3.5 billion for each new mile of track.
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As MoviePass' subscriber base has ballooned to over 3 million, so too have its losses.
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Quantitative easing, or the Fed's purchases of securities after the financial crisis, ballooned the balance sheet.
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The margin ballooned to 30 in the second half as Kelly Oubre Jr. added 18 points.
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The size of the caravan traveling to reach the US border has ballooned to 7,200 people.
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By 2300 that number had ballooned to 20133,22013 food producers growing food on 2650 million acres.
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The number of accusers has now ballooned to over 200 women, says the Los Angeles Times.
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With the rising number of stay-at-home dads, online resources geared toward fathers have ballooned.
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Costs have ballooned to more than $2300bn; the project is forecast to be operational by 21.
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Image: APDespite being enormously profitable, Google's parent company, Alphabet, has ballooned its expenditures on experimental projects.
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As mobile payments ballooned to $18.8 trillion in China, this turned out to be the winner.
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In the past year, membership of the Democratic Socialists of America ballooned from 8,000 to 25,000.
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Now some food transportation on barges is slowing as El Nino-related rain has ballooned rivers.
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After that, it ballooned like crazy — making Dell Computer one of the fastest-growing companies ever.
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The company's loss ballooned to $1.17 billion, or $2.00 per share, in the quarter ended Dec.
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In the last year alone, DSA's membership has ballooned from 8,000 to 25,000 dues-paying members.
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While it has not given updated figures, the numbers have ballooned, prompting fresh calls for support.
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Costs have ballooned more than 10 percent to $37 billion since the project's approval in 2012.
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The lead ballooned beyond 23 points when Harden made a 3-pointer with 6:58 remaining.
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As of April 24.1, the median home value had ballooned to over $217,200, according to Zillow.
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At that time, the price of tulip bulbs ballooned, peaked and then crashed in early 1637.
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The cuts ballooned the deficit, because they reduced government revenues without generating enough growth to compensate.
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But that single donation ballooned into a mission that Tyler has carried on for four years.
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The penal system ballooned, while social supports directed toward the poorest and most vulnerable declined precipitously.
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As of April 22017, the median home value has ballooned to over $343,234, according to Zillow.
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The cost of the piece has ballooned from the original estimate, $75 million, Mr. Ross said.
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The first International offered a $1.6 million prize pool, but it's ballooned in the years since.
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In the years since the earmark ban, federal deficits have ballooned along with the overall debt.
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Thanks to high interest rates, her loan balance ballooned in size by the time she graduated.
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Others came in when the company had already ballooned and was struggling to manage its growth.
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By the time they had discovered the infestation, he said, it had ballooned to 10,000 acres.
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But from 2012 to 2016, the annual number of billion-dollar disasters ballooned to about 10.
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Its membership has ballooned from 7,000 to 37,000 members since the 2016 election, per NY Times.
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But a few rough starts ballooned his postseason E.R.A. to 4.59 over 13 games entering Friday.
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Leveraged loans, which banks and other financial institutions extend to already indebted companies, have also ballooned.
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Those gains ballooned to 12.3% one month after the sell-off and 19% after three months.
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That number has ballooned continuously through much of the last decade, while wages have remained flat.
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In fact it ballooned to over 100,903, largely on the strength of this younger white cohort.
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Almost overnight, $300 ballooned into tens of thousands, and now he can remodel his basement. Maybe.
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In some large countries, like China, private debt also ballooned, in theory, fueling companies' expansion plans.
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Such scams have ballooned in recent years, costing victims tens of billions of dollars over time.
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Walls were built, budgets ballooned and scores of new agents were hired to patrol border towns.
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Now that China makes more cars than the U.S. and Japan combined, domestic demand has ballooned.
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Restructuring charges in the latest quarter ballooned to $101.2 million from $12.9 million a year earlier.
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As a result, the state's unpaid bill backlog ballooned to a record $3.23 billion last year.
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After the financial crisis, the company ballooned in size, rapidly acquiring mortgage servicing business from banks.
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By Thursday, when Trump recalled his conversation with Modi, the number had ballooned to 10 million.
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Last year, China's pork supply depleted by more than half and prices ballooned 110% in November.
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Accounts filed in March show that Improbable&aposs losses ballooned in 2018 and its revenue declined.
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Election security teams have ballooned at Facebook, which is spending billions of dollars on the effort.
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Over the last three years, the app's customer base has ballooned by 286%, Okta's report showed.
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That ballooned the budget to the point where a $75 million opening weekend was a disappointment.
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AWS' annual revenue ballooned from $1.5 billion in 2012 to more than $25 billion in 2018.
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Health-care spending ballooned to nearly 18 percent of the U.S. gross domestic product in 2016.
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The latest jackpot ballooned in value after December 26, the date of the last winning game.
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The amount of incentives offered ballooned to billions of dollars because of the proposed job count.
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What started as an hour or two of TV a day ballooned to three or four.
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With supplies now close to zero, it had ballooned by almost 213 percent to 22013 roubles.
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An unofficial wait list of hundreds of people over the summer ballooned to thousands this fall.
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Republicans have already ballooned the deficit in last week's spending agreement and with their tax cuts.
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Antetokounmpo returned to score four points in the fourth quarter as Milwaukee's lead ballooned to 29 points.
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Berardo offered his collection as collateral for his debt, which had ballooned to more than £257,2644,000 (~$1,114,764,000).
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Disapproval of Ryan has ballooned since February, when his net rating was -1% compared to -18% now.
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That deficit ballooned to $323.3 billion in 2018, according to Chinese government figures released earlier this month.
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Jet's customer service team ballooned from half a dozen to 400 people last year, according to Singley.
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Amazon's current headquarters in Seattle has ballooned to a massive footprint, causing congestion and raising housing costs.
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The hedge fund industry has now ballooned in size, to $2.9 trillion, from $539 billion in 2001.
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But Hebei's ballooned by 87m tonnes, in part because Hebei's energy production is much more carbon-intensive.
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In 2018, Macs only averaged 4.8 threats per endpoint, but that number ballooned to 11 in 2019.
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These have ballooned since 2013, when the Man Maw mining district first started cranking up tin production.
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Most people focused on her lips, which had seemingly ballooned in size in just a few months.
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Since then, their number has ballooned, with the population today estimated to cover 99.8% of the country.
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My family endured a lot of abuse in our suburb — our house was egged and water-ballooned.
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Late that month, United said its inappropriate payments to Williams had ballooned to more than $3.93 million.
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The trend has accelerated: in 2012 and 2016 deficits ballooned by almost three percentage points of GDP.
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Costs for exploration and production that had ballooned when oil was above $22014 a barrel became millstones.
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Initially intended to reach 500,000 workers, the pledge ballooned into eight times that size under Ivanka's leadership.
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The company's loss ballooned to $1.17 billion, or $2.00 per share, in the fourth quarter ended Dec.
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This then ballooned into the bill combo that wound up headed to President Trump's desk for signing.
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Two baskets by James ballooned the lead to 25 with 219:241 left in the third quarter.
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During that same stretch, sales of crossovers and SUVs ballooned from 29.7% of the industry to 20183%.
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The deficit ran to $900 billion in 2019, and the national debt has ballooned to $22 trillion.
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The poorly-constructed, 2,000-page Dodd-Frank Act has ballooned to 25,000 pages of rules and regulations.
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The number of e-hongbao exchanges has ballooned in the two years since WeChat launched the feature.
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The number of dating apps and online services has ballooned in recent years, serving increasingly niche markets.
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That user growth has helped to boost ad sales, which ballooned to $5.64 billion in the quarter.
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Those costs ballooned in the first nine months of 2015 due to higher prices of the credits.
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Since then, debt in the central district of Tunceli province has ballooned and unemployment has shot up.
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Reductions in public spending and lifting capital controls contributed to a recession and ballooned inflation in 2016.
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The Fed's balance sheet ballooned to $4.5 trillion as it bought bonds in its quantitative easing program.
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The first-half lead ballooned to 23 points at 46-23 with 27.3:29 left before intermission.
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The hedge fund industry has now ballooned in size, to $2.9 trillion, from $539 billion in 2001.
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Democrats have long bemoaned the racial discrepancies that ballooned alongside the exponential rise in our prison population.
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Marshall's ERA ballooned to 9.39 after he gave up just one run in his first four appearances.
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Meanwhile, the trade deficit, which stood at $502.3 billion before Trump came into office, has also ballooned.
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As Bezos' wealth ballooned, many have wondered what he was planning to do with all that cash.
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Additionally, its sales and marketing expenses have ballooned at a rate even faster than its revenue growth.
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The global wellness industry ballooned to $4.2 trillion in 2017, according to the nonprofit Global Wellness Institute.
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GM has cut shifts at several U.S. plants this year as inventories of unsold cars have ballooned.
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Our pageviews ballooned from 600,000 to 2.2 million per month by the time of the impeachment hearings.
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SPLRCT had ballooned to its most expensive since early 2008 in terms of price to earnings expectations.
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Over the last 03 years, the baseball showcase industry has ballooned into a multi-million-dollar juggernaut.
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Corker wanted automatic tax hikes if the deficit ballooned but couldn't get it under the Senate rules.
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But he did notice something unusual: his Twitter followers suddenly ballooned from about 100 to about 10,000.
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The party's advantage has ballooned over the last few months, improving its outlook for retaking the House.
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As a result of all this, many of the today's races have ballooned into annual city spectacles.
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Prices for items such as face masks, hand sanitizer, and thermometers have ballooned by hundreds of dollars.
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The bank's loans to Kyrgyzstan, just $9 million in 2008, have ballooned to more than $1.7 billion.
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In fiscal 85033, SNAP enrollment had ballooned to 44 million people at a cost of $71 billion.
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Reconstruction costs ballooned further when Tropical Storm Nate battered the Central American nation just a year later.
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Benchmark's then-20 percent stake in Uber has now ballooned into one worth of billions of dollars.
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You know, we ballooned the balance sheet at that point then and we've had to restructure that.
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Data is eating the world, and shoring up its protection has ballooned into a huge market opportunity.
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The lead ballooned to 70-50 on reserve Kody Stattmann's corner 3-pointer with 255:23 remaining.
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On Sunday, as the group's membership ballooned, they sent counselors to hospitals to support families and victims.
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The balance sheet has since ballooned to more than $4.2 trillion, and Kaplan said he is concerned.
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The announcements come at a time when the popularity of smart speakers with virtual assistants has ballooned.
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"Its balance sheet has ballooned," JPMorgan Chase analyst Ken Goldman wrote in a report late last week.
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"I was just at a standstill," said Mr. Smith, whose debt has ballooned to more than $13,20193.
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After Miami scored the first five points in the fourth quarter, the edge ballooned to 297-74.
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The program has ballooned in size, driving up costs and leading to the unexpected shortage of funds.
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The laws also ballooned the prison population, leading to costs that were unsustainable for some state governments.
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By the 1990s, AEGIS had ballooned to more than 25 programs serving thousands of students every summer.
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The deficit ran to $20343 billion in 2019, and the national debt has ballooned to $22 trillion.
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Jeremy still pays $13k monthly, but the 5% has ballooned since he's hauling in so much more.
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The post-election Reagan transition ballooned to more than 1,000 people, including both paid staff and volunteers.
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The deficit ran to $900 billion in 2019 and the national debt has ballooned to $22 trillion.
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It now says the total owed has ballooned to $9 billon because of interest accrued since 2013 .
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Since the trend was first spotted by Motherboard, the deepfakes community on Reddit ballooned to almost 100,000 subscribers.
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According to the latest approximation, the number of estimated participants has ballooned dramatically over the last few days.
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Fresh Diet, which delivers meal plans nationwide, has ballooned since then, and revenue hit $18 million last year.
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In the years since, those two sequels have ballooned to four, which would be filmed back to back.
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As the market ballooned with cash, the Dow Jones Industrial Average reached an unprecedented 381 in September 1929.
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Beyond the obvious tragedies themselves, the Boeing 737 Max 8 crashes have ballooned into a huge international scandal.
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Between 1990 and 803, the population of Kootenai County has ballooned 125% — from 69,000 to an estimated 154,000.
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Gossip fans are overwhelmed with options, given how quickly the mini-industry has ballooned over the past decade.
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Rissmiller said the intention of tax cuts and stimulus, which ballooned the defict, was to encourage corporate spending.
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It is now 20% above the crazy peak of Housing Bubble 1 and has ballooned 123% since 2000.
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As China's economy has ballooned, and its reliance on Hong Kong has diminished, Beijing has exerted greater influence.
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But its costs ballooned as it invested heavily in new aspects of its business, such as scooter rentals.
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Over the course of his campaign, Trump's replies and Twitter as a whole ballooned with fake Trump supporters.
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But China's debt load has ballooned since the global financial crisis to sit around 250 percent of GDP.
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Schroeder capped a 10-0 Atlanta run with a 3-pointer as Atlanta's lead ballooned to 75-43.
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He had wanted the bill to contain "triggers", automatic tax rises that would kick in if deficits ballooned.
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O) stock market value ballooned to a record $153 billion on Thursday and eclipsed Walt Disney Co (DIS.
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Idlib's population has ballooned over the course of the conflict, with people there from fighting inn other areas.
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The number of students in CPS classrooms has ballooned in recent years on the heels of school closures.
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Wikipedia's Game of Thrones episode page helpfully charts how that fan base has ballooned from year to year.
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The baby-making industry has ballooned to nearly $3 billion in the U.S., providing fertile ground for growth.
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Nowadays that $1 billion sell-out seems like chump change since Instagram has ballooned to 500 million users.
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In fact, "the arteries look completely normal," though the heart itself is dilated and ballooned and very weak.
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Over the years the statement ballooned until it reached a post-crisis zenith of more than 900 words.
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Costs have ballooned more than 10 percent to around $37 billion since the project was approved in 2012.
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This chart shows how the number of deaths per 100,000 has ballooned across all age and sex groups.
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This chart shows how the number of deaths per 2100,2000 has ballooned across all age and sex groups.
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As the days dragged on, what might have simply been an inconvenient blip ballooned into a major incident.
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In total, Snap's losses ballooned to $2.2 billion, up from $104 million in the first quarter last year.
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Last year, the deficit ballooned in the fourth quarter, which coincided with a significant weakening of the tenge.
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The Democratic field has ballooned in recent weeks as more candidates seek to frame themselves as progressives. Sen.
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The number of children being used as suicide bombers ballooned from four in 2014 to 44 in 85033.
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During the 2010-2012 euro zone debt crisis, the Italian/German spread ballooned out to over 500 bps.
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With this steady stream of cash, the FAA has rapidly increased ballooned in size and decreased in efficiency.
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Now, demonstrations have ballooned into a fight against police brutality and Chinese encroachment on the semi-autonomous city.
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The sector had ballooned to its most expensive since early 2008 in terms of price-to-earnings expectations.
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The lead ballooned to 133 in the second before Chicago finished the half on a 213-214 run.
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The advantage ballooned to 883-40 when T.J. Gibbs hit a 3-pointer with 9:30 to play.
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The number of immigrant children in government-run shelters has ballooned to a record 14,700 as of Dec.
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Unfortunately, great-grandma's ballooned barometer encouraged me to heap on second helpings of mashed potatoes and the like.
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Boosting those sales numbers was strong U.S. e-commerce sales, which ballooned 40%, and growth in grocery sales.
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As of Friday afternoon, estimates ballooned to 3 million protesters worldwide, and are expected to be even higher.
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The cost of his 403(b) holdings — three different CREF variable annuities — ballooned by nearly half in 2015.
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Editorial budgets ballooned as Newhouse publications spent without restraint to hire the best-known writers, photographers and editors.
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Tim Peterson and Tyler Bashlor followed Rhame, and the score ballooned to 19-0 in the fifth inning.
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Since then the projected revenue shortfall for next year ballooned from $560 million to its current $960 million.
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But as the art market has ballooned, it has changed, as have the artists who define its success.
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Sculpture and assemblage have grown to immense proportions in recent years as the art business itself has ballooned.
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The intensive hunt for her ballooned at one point to include 200 federal, state and local law officers.
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The local murder rate has ballooned 55 percent higher since last year, while reports of rape also spiked.
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But it was a goal he would not achieve, as the federal deficit ballooned during the Reagan years.
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You're eating and exercising no differently than you did before menopause struck, but suddenly, your tummy has ballooned.
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Brazil's budget deficit has ballooned to around 10 percent of the GDP from nearly 3 percent in 2013.
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Instead, the nation's deficit and debt has ballooned under his presidency with tax cuts and increased federal spending.
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As Pokémon's world of monsters has ballooned to nearly 1,000, it's never been harder to pick your favorite.
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The lead ballooned to 32-5 with 7:47 remaining before halftime on a 3-pointer by Nolley.
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During that time she retained so much water that her weight, normally 125 to 130, ballooned to 170.
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Its surplus ballooned as it hit a demographic sweet spot, with lots of workers and few retired people.
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The balance sheet ballooned as the Fed sought to stimulate the economy out of its financial crisis morass.
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Swipe fees (including those on credit cards) have ballooned into many merchants' second-largest operating cost after labor.
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Illinois' unprecedented two-year budget impasse ballooned the unpaid bill total to a record $15.4 billion in June.
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While the action sports and rap industries ballooned, artist-led independent T-shirt labels flourished in their shadow.
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The part-time job has ballooned so much that what is part-time is his life outside work.
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Now, it is facing a $250 billion national debt that ballooned in part because of 1MDB's heavy borrowing.
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There was another push for a balanced budget amendment after Ronald Reagan-era tax cuts ballooned the deficit.
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He ballooned in weight and few, including Fury himself, thought he'd ever see the inside of a ring again.
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Now that revenues from concerts have become so much more important, the potential losses to tour organisers have ballooned.
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His confidence was badly misplaced, as the cost of the scandal ballooned from 1.63 million pounds to 530 million.
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By then, Madrid and its suburbs had ballooned to 4 million inhabitants, and family and social dynamics were shifting.
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"In 12 pitches, a lot happened," Red Sox manager John Farrell said of Kimbrel, whose ERA ballooned to 5003.
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Equity ETFs in Europe have ballooned in recent years and are now worth about 2100 billion euro ($21 billion).
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Despite a starting price of $353,000 for a basic Dawn, our tester's price tag ballooned to $458,025 with options.
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By this week, the video jumped to 2.8 million views, and her subscriber count ballooned to more than 508,000.
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The number of emoji has ballooned to over 3,000 since the original 176 symbols were released back in 1999.
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A quick look at how Series A and seed rounds have ballooned in recent years, fueled by top investors
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The number of people from the ship who've been diagnosed with the coronavirus has ballooned to at least 135.
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China, where between 2006 and 2016 the number of fertility clinics ballooned from 88 to 451, could be next.
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The mother of a pupil in Madison complains that her daughter's high-school class has ballooned to 40 children.
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When the country bought bright new fire-engines their price somehow ballooned by 70%, to more than $1m each.
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And at 6 pounds, 3 ounces each, they ballooned to nearly triple the size of a normal adult's kidneys.
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College debt has ballooned over the past two decades in America, and is an issue on the campaign trail.
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The total cost of revenue for the company ballooned from $182 million in 2015 to $240 million in 22.
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ETF assets have ballooned to about $2.3 trillion — still well behind the $13.2 trillion mutual fund industry, but gaining.
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Since winning power in 2010, the Conservatives have prioritized cutting Britain's budget deficit, which ballooned after the financial crisis.
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Russia's nuclear arsenal ballooned, including hundreds of new SSC-8 cruise missiles that could reach European capitals in minutes.
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Herard was dubbed "The Fat Juror" as media interest in the case ballooned and jurors' identities were kept secret.
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Supply chain management software is a market that ballooned to $14 billion in value in 2018, according to Gartner.
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The state's backlog of unpaid bills ballooned last year to more than $16bn and the deficit depleted budget reserves.
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BROOKLYN, Iowa – The reward for the safe return of a missing University of Iowa student has ballooned to $260,000.
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Walker was assessed 42 additional strokes in the first round, which ballooned her 13-over-par 85 to 127.
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Since early 23, assets in the fund ballooned from a little more than $13 billion to $21 billion currently.
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That monetary stimulus, coupled with supply-side tax cuts, caused the economy to boom, even as budget deficits ballooned.
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Massive depreciations led to financial havoc, as asset prices tumbled and these countries' enormous debts ballooned in dollar terms.
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"We do not believe stocks have ballooned into a bubble as many think," Raich said in a note Monday.
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Netflix's original content library has ballooned in recent years, but House of Cards is still probably its flagship show.
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That's why brain training games — computer-based memory puzzles — have ballooned into a billion-dollar industry in recent years.
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Over the years, the number of creatures has ballooned to more than 700, most of which are entirely forgettable.
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In the past decade the contemporary-art world has ballooned, with new fairs, biennials and exhibition spaces opening everywhere.
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Losses in freight ballooned by 161%, growing to $81 million from $31 million in the same quarter of 2018.
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Since then, its library has ballooned into the triple digits, as it now releases new specials almost every week.
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But cryptocurrency crime has ballooned as the market has slowed down, prices have plunged and business activity has stalled.
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Still, strong majorities in both parties were very concerned about the deficit when it ballooned in Obama's first term.
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Proposed construction costs have ballooned from $2202 billion to $2628 billion and the project is yet to break ground.
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Supplements have ballooned into a $40 billion industry, but FDA has no mechanism to know what retailers are selling.
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But then Ellis and Selden started firing again and within minutes, that lead ballooned back up to 15 points.
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Yet, during these 28503 years, the amount of refugees under UNRWAs auspices ballooned from 22019,000 to almost 5.5 million.
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The DEA's staff in Afghanistan ballooned from two in 20113 to forty in 2004 with a windfall of funding.
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Local stores also began importing counterfeit skhothane styles as the subculture ballooned in the wake of the media interest.
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Digital payment systems have ballooned in popularity in India since the government scrapped large-value bank notes in 20153.
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Since starting her digital media company for women, her website has ballooned, reaching over 100 million readers every month.
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In recent years the national debt has ballooned, while soaring prices led to nationwide street protests in January 2018.
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When they met, Spain had just a handful of coronavirus infections, but the outbreak ballooned, pushing other business aside.
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Now that the number of cases of measles has ballooned in Brooklyn she no longer takes any public transportation.
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In that time, the technology industry has ballooned to be by far the biggest segment of the US economy.
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By the time of her death, Koko's vocabulary had ballooned to more than 2,000 words, according to the foundation.
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Turkey's corporate foreign currency debt has ballooned since 2009, and 80 percent of it is held by Turkish banks.
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Those losses later ballooned further: Westinghouse sought bankruptcy protection in March, after costing Toshiba $6 billion in write-offs.
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Interest in UFOs and aliens ballooned after a Facebook event pledging to "storm Area 51" went viral last month.
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At Dries Van Noten, wool trousers ballooned with pleats and white shirts billowed with a crisp surplus of cotton.
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"Food delivery and e-commerce ballooned China's dependence on single-use plastics and a general throwaway culture," he said.
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The company's losses have ballooned as it has spent huge sums taking on new leases and refurbishing its locations.
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The numbers ballooned from there: to 135 cases, 174 cases, 218 cases, and up to 454 by February 17th.
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The number of Hispanic children in the gifted classes ballooned to 0003 children in 2017, from 120 in 2007.
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The lead ballooned to 26-8 with 8:20 left in the first half on a Bane 3-pointer.
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By the 20-minute mark, Northwestern's lead ballooned to 235-220 on a pair of free throws by Turner.
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Between 1970 and 2000, the number of prisons in the United States ballooned from 511 to more than 1,600.
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What began as a few cases in the spring ballooned into a national public health crisis over the summer.
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Two days after that, the number ballooned to 1,330 apps, and 317 were available for purchase in the store.
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However, the gig economy ballooned — now permeating nearly every major industry — and its negative externalities have become inescapably evident.
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In the process, its balance sheet ballooned from around $800 billion to the current level of around $4.2 trillion.
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Digital payment systems have ballooned in popularity in India since the government scrapped large-value bank notes in 2016.
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His college fund has ballooned to more than $170,000, driven by donations to a website created by the filmmaker.
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The country's outstanding debt has ballooned to around 250 percent of gross domestic product, the highest on the planet.
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Then, as expenditures ballooned during the Civil War, President Abraham Lincoln imposed excise and income taxes to add revenue.
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February 2000, the day after the New Hampshire primary (Trump's first victory), the subreddit had ballooned to 215,2172 subscribers.
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But acquisitions and investments in new areas have been expensive; GE's capital employed has ballooned but its returns have not.
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Gates's wealth ballooned from there and, in 1987, he made history as the youngest person to ever become a billionaire.
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The Fed's balance sheet ballooned during and after the 20173-09 recession as the Fed bought bonds to lower rates.
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His weight ballooned by 50 pounds since his days competing in triathlons, and knew he had to make a change.
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I have $220,000 worth of private student loans which ballooned with interest, and a monthly minimum payment of over $2,000.
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The industry has since ballooned: from about 20063,000 American DAFs in 2010 to over 270,000 in 2015, easily outnumbering foundations.
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Kasky began a group text with a few friends that has since ballooned to include as many as 19 participants.
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Projected costs ballooned to $2 billion before construction started — which would have made it the most expensive stadium ever built.
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Developing that telescope for launch and for space has taken decades, and the cost has ballooned to nearly $10 billion.
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The trade gap ballooned to $59.9 billion at the end of 2018, which was the largest gap in 10 years.
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The action ended an unprecedented two-year budget impasse that ballooned the state's unpaid bill backlog to about $15 billion.
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A 2016 outbreak at an immigration detention center ballooned into a statewide outbreak when some employees refused to be vaccinated.
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Additionally, its 2018 sales prediction has ballooned to 43 million from a previous 240 million, equaling an 18 percent rise.
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Since the first private prison opened in 46.02 in Tennessee, for-profit incarceration has ballooned into a $22017 billion industry.
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Within months of the initial market listing in late 2014, the company's market value had ballooned to 9 billion euros.
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San Francisco's average home price ballooned 294% from $281,268 in December 2275 to $53,25,2500 in December 230, per Point2 Homes.
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MoviePass has ballooned in just a few short months, but subscribers and theater chains are suspicious of its business model.
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Few winced as lean teams ballooned in plush offices, and founders flew to conferences and events instead of building products.
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Irish banks are under pressure from the European Central Bank to reduce bad loans which ballooned after Ireland's property crash.
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The three men hold stakes in companies that ballooned in value when the Star Market in Shanghai began trading Monday.
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They are a major source of funding for the deficit which ballooned to $5.885 billion in May, well above forecasts.
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Volumes of so-called "produced water" have ballooned as horizontal drilling and hydraulic fracturing, or fracking, boosted output in Oklahoma.
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It just ballooned to the point where we just said 'okay, it'd be easier just to make a new game.
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The lead ballooned to 210 points in third quarter, allowing Doc Rivers to rest his starters in the fourth quarter.
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Milwaukee's lead ballooned to 289-295 on Brook Lopez's jump shot with 289:2100 left in in the first period.
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Investors will have to reduce weightings of other drugmakers to invest in Takeda, whose market capitalization has ballooned, traders said.
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Companies are also struggling with debt burdens that have ballooned since the financial crisis, even as bottom lines have shrunk.
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Meanwhile, the site would grow at a consistent pace before it ballooned from 50,000 to over 26,26 followers in January.
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The 737 Max tragedies have ballooned into an enormous international scandal, and investigations into its jets are far from over.
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That foresight has now paid off handsomely as the cryptocurrency's price has ballooned nearly 10,000 percent in the time since.
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Wright entered the night with an American League-leading 2.67 ERA, which ballooned to 3.12 once his night was over.
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The cost of putting on the Games has ballooned since the first modern Olympics were held in Athens in 1896.
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One credit card turned into five, and as balances ballooned, the stress of the monthly payments crept in on them.
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Yet VA appropriations grew 68 percent and the departments' staff ballooned between President Obama's first year in office and 2015.
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Spending on health care in the U.S. ballooned to $3.3 trillion in 2016, representing 18 percent of gross domestic product.
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He told us at the time he would -- but it appears he hadn't yet, and those debts have since ballooned.
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What started out as a small community of Parisian fishers eventually ballooned to a full-on subculture of street fishing.
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LPG, a historically niche and dislocated market, has ballooned with the advent of U.S. exports due to the shale boom.
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Jon Rahm shot a capable 69 in the first round, then ballooned to a 78 Friday and missed the cut.
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His decision is cited as a main reason that an H.I.V. crisis in a rural community ballooned to epidemic proportions.
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Verily, which was formerly known as Google Life Sciences, has ballooned to hundreds of engineers and scientists in recent years.
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Diaz has allowed at least a run in three of his past five appearances, and his E.R.A. ballooned to 4.94.
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The company has ballooned in the decade since, offering its members temporary access to everything from vacation outfits to jewelry.
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Over the years, as more spiritual seekers from the West traveled to India looking for enlightenment, Rishikesh ballooned in size.
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Late last year, that scorecard wasn't looking good, as growth slowed, the trade deficit ballooned and the stock market plunged.
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The amount that Tesla owed its suppliers ballooned in the second quarter, which may have helped the company conserve cash.
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The lead ballooned to 24 percentage points when voters were asked about their vote if Trump were to endorse Tuberville.
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The population of Boa Vista, the state capital, ballooned over the past few years as some 50,000 Venezuelans resettled here.
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It has delivered almost a million petitions and made over 157,400 calls to Congress as its volunteer base has ballooned.
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For the working classes over the same period, as wages stagnated, work conditions deteriorated and debts ballooned, tax rates increased.
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Since then, the housing industry has ballooned into a juggernaut that accounts for 70 percent of the country's household wealth.
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The number of school-aged children in temporary housing has ballooned by more than 70 percent over the past decade.
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The debts had ballooned during a job transition to supplement the household's cash flow and to pay a business consultant.
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Today, that number has ballooned to more than one in four occupations, including those such as interior designers and florists.
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SpaceX has so far shied away from an IPO even as it has ballooned to a $30 billion-plus valuation.
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Chico's population ballooned after people fled Paradise last year, but many people still live in RVs or other temporary housing.
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The test has ballooned in popularity even as it's been shown, again and again, to have no science behind it.
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In the 1970s, as microwave ovens ballooned in popularity, many people were convinced that the home-cooked meal was over.
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During a polar vortex in late January, for instance, single-digit temperatures in the city quickly ballooned into the 260s.
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The Federal Reserve's balance sheet ballooned following the collapse of Lehman Brothers in September 22 because of quantitative easing (QE).
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The inflation rate was 1% under President Lyndon Johnson in 20083 but ballooned to a breakneck 14.8% in March 1980.
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Today, the middle class has $30.73 trillion in assets, while the top 1%'s share has ballooned to $34.7 trillion.
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With $0003 billion in assets, these set-it-and-forget-it funds have ballooned in popularity over the last decade.
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Rival pot companies Canopy Growth and Aurora Cannabis have ballooned 46 percent and 69 percent, respectively, over the same period.
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But Gatti had ballooned to 160 pounds, according to an unofficial weigh-in conducted by HBO just before the bout.
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The reason these jackpots have ballooned to such monstrous proportions is because, well, no one has won in a while.
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By the end of the month, WHO said the number of suspected cholera cases had ballooned to more than 1,400.
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Meanwhile, Colbert's total audience has ballooned by 23 percent from a year ago, to average 3.7 million viewers a night.
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Yet despite this, the human population has ballooned from about 3 billion in 1960 to nearly 8 billion by 2020.
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Besides reducing rabbit populations to manageable levels, the number of stoats in New Zealand ballooned as they attacked native wildlife.
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Early puberty ballooned me up to 2187 pounds and at age eleven, I earned the hilariously cruel nickname of kid tits.
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With the Iowa caucuses still nine months away, the Democratic field of presidential candidates has ballooned to more than 20123 hopefuls.
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For the whole second quarter, the surplus ballooned by over A$5 billion to stand at a record A$19.8 billion.
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And total household debt, including mortgages, has ballooned to $22016,26, up from $22003,22007 in 22007, when NerdWallet started tracking the data.
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"In 25 pitches, a lot happened," Farrell said of Kimbrel, whose ERA ballooned to 22.42 — it was 2.53 entering the night.
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The amount lent by the federal student loan program has ballooned to almost $1.5 trillion, surpassing credit and and mortgage debt.
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Even including services (where we have a trade surplus of over $200 billion), our trade deficit has ballooned to $568 billion .
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Blackrock has ballooned to 20073 trillion of managed assets since 2008 mirroring the exponential enrichment of elites during economic crisis worldwide.
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"When I started the tour, it was a two-hour show and it ballooned to a three-hour show," she said.
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Speaking on Fox Business Thursday night, O'Brien said the NSC had "just ballooned to a massive bureaucracy" during the Obama administration.
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Since then, not only has Prime Day ballooned to a two-day affair, it has also gotten much bigger than Amazon.
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Total debt as a percentage of GDP in the world's second-largest economy has ballooned to nearly 300 percent since 2007.
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"The stock of unsold property in China has ballooned in recent years," Fathom Consulting said in a research note on China.
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Around October, Niedermair was brought aboard MAGA3X by Tim Treadstone— later pushed out of the group too—and her responsibilities ballooned.
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The U.S. deficit is expected to run to $900 billion in 2019 and the national debt has ballooned to $22 trillion.
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But in the last decade or so, as the number of hedge funds has ballooned, managers have begun flipping the script.
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Before that, he steered Google's New York office through its tremendous growth period — it ballooned from 50 engineers to over 3,000.
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The population ballooned and it became a destination for oil workers, drawing in people from across Canada and around the world.
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The $4.5 trillion balance sheet ballooned as the Fed bought securities to fight the financial crisis and the sluggish growth afterwards.
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Stylists have become demi-celebrities, and the annual Met Costume Institute Gala has ballooned into the Super Bowl of red carpets.
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Since foundations were first used by the robber barons as a way to avoid taxes while appearing philanthropic, they have ballooned.
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In the eyes of many, including the Welsh steelworkers, the main bogeyman is China, where steel output has ballooned (see chart).
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After the company went public in 1992, the number of Starbucks locations ballooned from 165 stores to roughly 23,768 stores today.
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That figure ballooned to over 300 million won when additional bonuses from other organizations were included, according to local media reports.
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By 2017, its stockpile had shriveled to $301 million, even as its debt burden ballooned from $2.3 billion to $5.2 billion.
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Your loans will rack up interest quickly, and when you're finally forced to start repayment you'll find your balance has ballooned.
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The Rams committed seven turnovers in the first eight minutes of the second half as the margin ballooned to 226-35.
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But in the ensuing years, the EDI has ballooned from the original $1 billion request to $6.5 billion in fiscal 2019.
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According to the company, it started life with five employees three years ago; today its staff has ballooned to 65 people.
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Nov. 15, 2018: The FDA announces plans to curb flavored e-cig sales after reports that youth vaping has ballooned 78%.
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The number of Ugandan children in institutional care has ballooned from less than 13,000 in 1992 to more than 50,000 today.
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The Failing N.Y. Times reports that "the size of the company's lobbying staff has ballooned," and that... View the discussion thread.
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American student debt has ballooned in the past 20 years, going from $363 billion in 2005 to nearly $1.5 trillion now.
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Yet the federal deficit ballooned to more than $100 billion last month because we ended up spending more than $353 billion.
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In 2017, startups raised over $300 million to apply blockchain technology to energy, and deal flow has only ballooned in 2018.
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At University of Illinois, after years of seeing inadequate pay raises while administrator salaries ballooned, the faculty finally voted to unionize.
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According to its annual report, the Postal Service lost $2.74 billion this year, and its deficit has ballooned to $61.86 billion.
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Since the organization began tracking this data in 1995, total assets using ESG principles in investment selection have ballooned 18-fold.
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Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) data show airport debt has ballooned by 27 percent to $91 billion total in the past decade.
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Tech has ballooned noticeably in the last eight years especially, but the industry has a long history in the capital city.
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The number of for-hire vehicles has ballooned in the city in recent years with the popularity of ride-hailing apps.
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Juul told Business Insider a month earlier that its staff had ballooned from 200 to 20003,000 employees within the past year.
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Listings later ballooned as hoteliers turned to Yanolja to fill rooms after a political dispute caused a drop in Chinese demand.
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"I'll be paying it off for the rest of my life," said one graduate, whose student debt has ballooned to $29,000.
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In some years, the amounts distributed to each Trump sibling ballooned to nearly $23 million, records obtained by The Times show.
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The cost of the light-rail line — to be borne by local, state and federal taxpayers — has ballooned beyond $3 billion.
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Here's how the tech industry has ballooned in Austin — and why "Silicon Hills" is so appealing to workers and companies alike.
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For reasons that have not been explained, the price of each school has ballooned from $11 million to around $30 million.
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During the financial crisis 2008/09, it ballooned by roughly 18 percentage points from 64% in 2007 to 82% in 2010.
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European markets closed higher Thursday after U.S. jobless claims ballooned to a record high amid the fallout from the coronavirus pandemic.
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The gap ballooned to as much as $70 on Tuesday - the biggest premium for Comex futures in at least 40 years.
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Jeanine Pirro, whose weekend show has ballooned in viewership since Mr. Trump took office, interviewed to be a deputy attorney general.
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His email list, which started at 24,000 people, ballooned to more than 20203 million supporters over the course of the campaign.
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I've got some numbers here that world solar power generation capacity has ballooned to about 300 gigawatts from just one gigawatt.
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Its debt load had ballooned to $20.1 billion at the end of 2015, reflecting two big oil and natural gas acquisitions.
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The fiscal deficit has ballooned to about 7 percent of gross domestic product and a balance of payments crisis is looming.
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Soon enough, Amazon was out and the list ballooned to dozens of companies, including AT&T, Intel, Nokia, Sony and Vodafone.
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From short online tutorials to extensive in-person bootcamps, the number of "Money 101" classes has ballooned since the Great Recession.
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The plaintiffs argue that those maps continue to discriminate against Hispanic voters, who have ballooned in Texas in the intervening years.
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After Coca-Cola purchased a majority stake in the company, his initial $6 million investment ballooned in value to $200 million.
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Trading volumes ballooned to nearly 20 million shares Monday morning, compared to its 4.13-day average of just 2.6 million shares.
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Sixty-eight percent of Facebook' global workforce was male in 2015, a number that ballooned to 84 percent for technical roles.
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He has also pledged to trim the country's fiscal deficit, which ballooned under Fernandez because of generous spending on social programs.
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While it's still quirky and fun looking, the size has ballooned and the styling doesn't really work on the bigger canvas.
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For the past several years, Unity's valuation has ballooned alongside their public ambitions to become essential to customers beyond game developers.
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That ballooned to $446 million after Trump's cutback, forcing Kraehenbuehl to seek new funds from other countries and private sector donors.
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The deficit had ballooned to 571 million pounds ($709 million) by the time BHS went into administration in April this year.
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By the time Alibaba went public in the fall of 2014, the value of that stake had ballooned to $5.1 billion.
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In the five years since she graduated from cosmetology school, she said, interest has ballooned her debt from $403,000 to $29,000.
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As talks progressed, the figure ballooned — an arms race between Democrats' domestic budget wishes and the GOP's pot of defense cash.
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Before Mr. Diller got involved, the park was projected to cost $220 million; its budget has since ballooned to $22008 million.
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Illinois also has a lingering $8.5 billion unpaid bill backlog that had ballooned to more than $16 billion during the impasse.
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But the protests have ballooned to include celebrities, a former presidential candidate and now the group of veterans offering to come help.
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Ireland's deficit ballooned into double figures in 2009 when property prices collapsed, sparking a banking crisis and a three-year international bailout.
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Since the company went public, its stock has ballooned on sustained interest in plant-based protein, as well as Beyond's own momentum.
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But the exodus has ballooned this year, stretching social services, creating more competition for low-skilled jobs, and stoking fears of crime.
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He's since struggled to find employment and pay the bills, and today his student loan balance has ballooned to well over $300,000.
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With more and more people coming into the system and not enough increase in capacity to deal with them, the backlog ballooned.
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Unemployment has ballooned to a frightening 37.2%, using an expanded definition that includes people who have simply given up looking for work.
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The incident ballooned into a sex scandal involving allegations of extramarital affairs, and both his marriage and some lucrative endorsement deals ended.
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Following Blizzard's decision, the company's own forums and subreddits dedicated to its games ballooned with messages from angry fans condemning the ban.
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The protests since have ballooned to include other political grievances and affected everything from NBA teams to the US-China trade war.
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Cards started to appear in America in the mid 19th century and quickly ballooned into a Valentine's Day pastime here as well.
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The OnePlus 6 is still a great value, perhaps even more so now that every other flagship phone has ballooned in price.
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Because his email list ballooned above the Mailchimp threshold for free services, Keyes had to start paying to send out his newsletter.
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Benson and her ex-husband's student debt, which started at around $150,000 in the 1990s, has ballooned from interest and late fees.
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That number ballooned to $572 million by the end of December — and it doesn't even account for the losses at department stores.
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Assets under management in the index-tracker products have ballooned 12.6 percent this year, while long-only funds' assets fell 1.8 percent.
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But since the high-speed rail system was first proposed, costs have ballooned, from about $33 billion to more than $60 billion.
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In March 21853071, Gomix became Glitch and has since ballooned into a community that has created more than 21853072 million remixed apps.
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Horror and outrage made the world stand up to Bosnia's bullies after that imagination and fear had ballooned to almost insurmountable proportion.
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U.S. crude supply ballooned in 2018, which overall production rising by 1.7 million bpd to a record 10.9 million bpd in 2018.
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She needed five match points to finish off her 90th ranked opponent but finally sealed victory when Brengle ballooned a shot wide.
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Since 2016, our trade deficit with China has ballooned to $347 billion – that translates into millions of lost jobs and economic activity.
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I think it was a minor interest that ballooned into a series, which is kind of how I always end up working.
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His season ERA has ballooned to 4.67 as he has given up 15 earned runs in his last 48 1/3 innings.
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But since the high-speed rail system was first proposed, costs have ballooned, from about $85033 billion to more than $60 billion.
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Since 2010 regional debts, owed mainly to the federal government, have ballooned by a third in real terms, reaching 11% of GDP.
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But on July 5th, following his second reshuffle since taking office, Mr Modi's council of ministers ballooned to an even wobblier 78.
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U.S. crude supply ballooned in 63, which overall production rising by 1.7 million bpd to a record 10.9 million bpd in 2018.
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As for trade with China itself, it ballooned under the outgoing president, Ma Ying-jeou (as did Chinese tourism to the island).
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By 1670, the immigrant population had ballooned to sixty or seventy thousand in southern New England—twice the number of Native people.
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As public ire soared, his weekend rallies ballooned into some of the largest anti-government protests South Korea has seen in years.
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The incident ballooned into a sex scandal involving allegations of extramarital affairs, and ended both his marriage and some lucrative endorsement deals.
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Crime, fed by inequality, had ballooned to the point that some analysts designated the country perhaps the most violent in the world.
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The now $33 billion U.S. snack category has ballooned along with hectic Americans' schedules that force them to eat on-the-go.
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So the government built high schools, lots of them, and the number of kids in high school burgeoned, and blossomed, and ballooned.
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As the backlog of children awaiting release to sponsors ballooned, additional space was needed to hold children in prolonged and indefinite detention.
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The balance sheet ballooned as the Fed purchased Treasury and mortgage securities to help the economy during and after the financial crisis.
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This is all to point out that, at the high end of the assets-under-management (AUM) spectrum, fund size has ballooned.
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The budget deficit did not evaporate but ballooned and continues to grow today, with the nation approaching a $1 trillion annual deficit.
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Put simply, the watchlist, which had ballooned to 1.2 million people as of June 2017, isn't even that good at identifying terrorists.
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Over the last 10 years, federal government debt has ballooned to over 100 percent of gross domestic product from around 60 percent.
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It ratcheted out to cover more and more people and agencies starting in the 1970s and ballooned further under the Reagan administration.
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By January 2016, the number of cluster apartments had ballooned to about 3,650 apartments, with an estimated 11,203 people at its height.
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China's foreign reserves ballooned 24 fold in that period, rising to $4 trillion from $166 billion and dwarfing every other country's reserves.
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The article ballooned into the book, which Ms. Iglauer, a stickler for accuracy, had several fishermen read for technical errors before publication.
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CNN in turn dropped its lawsuit on the matter, which had ballooned into a test of press freedoms in the Trump era.
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According to the FT, that number has jumped to $14 billion as more shows have moved through production and budgets have ballooned.
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Under the Obama administration, the NSC staff ballooned to nearly 200 people, many of them temporary detailees from executive departments and agencies.
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But its expenses have ballooned, and the company's own projections don't see it making money anytime soon, according to a Reuters report.
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By the summer of 2023, the Russia probe, started in the midst of the 2016 election, had ballooned into a giant controversy.
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The number of people imprisoned in the United States has ballooned from around 200,000 in Baldwin's day to more than two million.
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O'Brien said the council had "ballooned up" to 236 policy professionals in the Obama administration from about 100 during the Bush administration.
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Rugunda said Uganda faced difficulties in coping with the influx, which ballooned recently since the latest wave of violence erupted in July.
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Navy base shooting Last week's shooting at Naval Air Station Pensacola that left three dead has ballooned into a serious diplomatic situation.
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And the importance of the outcome of the Democratic primary—to say nothing of the country and the world— had suddenly ballooned.
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According to the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, U.S. healthcare costs ballooned to $3.5 trillion in 2017 alone—$10,739 per person.
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During that span, the Democratic primary field ballooned to as many as 24 candidates and has since shrunk back down to 20.
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Sometimes I saw it as if it were part of a cartoon panel: It filled the panel and ballooned out of it.
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Record high tuition prices and ease of borrowing, among other factors, have ballooned Americans' collective student loan debt to over $1.4 trillion.
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That includes a gaming industry that has ballooned in value to $150 billion thanks to the rise of non-console-based games.
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They say the frequency of market-moving tweets from Trump "ballooned" in August, and that US rates markets are paying more attention.
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Instead, it ballooned to more than 11 million over the years, even as the government vastly beefed up border security and deportations.
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Pooling resources with a few co-workers can be an enticing prospect, especially now that the jackpot has ballooned to $700 million.
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What started as a small conference about management has ballooned into a famously exclusive gathering of business people, academics, and government officials.
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While the overall prison population jumped by 10 percent between 2005 and 2015, the number of Aboriginal inmates ballooned by 50 percent.
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In the past month, the daily average has ballooned to 210,2000 posts, which have in turn attracted a daily mean of 33,000 comments.
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But as uptake ballooned, human rights groups sounded alarms over how Facebook is being used to spread hate speech and stoke ethnic violence.
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The budget impasse has ballooned Illinois' pile of unpaid bills to $15 billion as of Wednesday, fueling litigation by unpaid vendors and others.
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Corporate indebtedness has ballooned in recent years, with companies now carrying a $9.1 trillion debt load compared to just $4.9 trillion in 2007.
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That helped shrink Australia's current account deficit to A$10.7 billion, even as the country's net foreign debt ballooned to A$1.04 trillion.
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Since her payments barely cover the interest on the debt, the amount she owes has ballooned to well over $200,000 today, she said.
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The sense of unease was not unfounded; the total credit extended to nonfinancial companies ballooned to 166% of China's economic output in 2017.
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That helped shrink Australia's current account deficit to A$10.7 billion, even as the country's net foreign debt ballooned to A$1.04 trillion.
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Playbooks that used to resemble pamphlets have ballooned to the size of physics textbooks, and now can only be contained in digital form.
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By that same token, dollar volume in nine and 10-figure venture deals ballooned by about 325 percent over that stretch of time.
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Its operating loss ballooned to 162 billion yen ($1.55 billion) in the financial year ended March from the previous year's 48.1 billion yen.
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All of it was iconic, and all of it overshadowed Coachella itself, which has ballooned into a bizarrely corporate display of bohemian kitschiness.
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But the poop Facebook event quickly ballooned to more than 1,000 people who plan to attend and more than 5,000 saying they're interested.
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Speaking on Fox Business Network after the meeting, O'Brien said the council had "just ballooned to a massive bureaucracy" during the Obama administration.
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Data on Tuesday showed the trade surplus ballooned in February, nudging Australia nearer to its first current account surplus since the mid-1970s.
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According to App Annie, the number of applications available on the Apple Watch, ballooned almost six-fold over the past year to 17,779.
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According to The Orange County Register, the price of the Inglewood project has ballooned to $2.66 billion — $800 million more than originally expected.
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And although the deficit has been slashed from its recession spike, the overall national debt has ballooned to $18 trillion from $11 trillion.
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SNB foreign currency investments have ballooned to 724 billion francs - 11 percent larger than the entire Swiss economy at the end of June.
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The Facebook group has nearly tripled in membership since I joined and has ballooned to a whopping 869,000 since its creation in September.
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The wild ride of 2017, however, led the company to over-estimated demand and, as a result, its inventory ballooned by $1 billion.
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Dollar Tree's market value ballooned to about $19.8 billion from $2.3 billion since Sasser took the top job in 2004, the company said.
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When the startup took over Uber's local business in 216, it quickly ballooned to account for 22015 percent of China's ride-sharing market.
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What started as a biopic of Soviet physicist Lev Landau ballooned into a years-long Ukrainian social experiment involving thousands of amateur actors.
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That became more problematic as assets ballooned globally and started to include non-standardized instruments including derivatives, resulting in a thicket of processes.
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That's a much, much better performance than 2014, when Spotify's losses ballooned by 289 percent, and its revenue was only up 45 percent.
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According to the White House, Iran's breakout time has ballooned from two or three months one year ago to "about a year" today.
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By the time Bill Clinton came around, the average had ballooned up to an hour -- and Clinton's all went much longer than that.
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The marching portion of the Women's March on Chicago was cancelled on Saturday after the crowd ballooned to 150,000, the Chicago Tribune reports.
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Excess cash sloshing around the euro zone has ballooned as a result of the ECB's 2.6 trillion euro ($2.93 trillion) bond-buying programme.
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To name just one benchmark: The number of proposed regulations covering web access ballooned from just 313 in 231 to 22018 in 210.
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To name just one benchmark: The number of proposed regulations covering web access ballooned from just 5 in 2014 to 20183 in 2017.
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Rob and Chyna have been going through a rocky patch amid reports that Rob's mental state has declined as his weight has ballooned.
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T-cell populations in the remaining lab mice ballooned and, by the end of the experiment, resembled those of their pet-shop cousins.
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What was originally envisioned as a trilogy has now ballooned into a five-film franchise, with all four sequels expected to shoot simultaneously.
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The bill has stalled, but protests have ballooned into a wider protest for democracy which have turned violent, with police clashing with protesters.
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As so often happens, the seemingly ordinary task of content migration quickly ballooned into a complex project involving a number of technical challenges.
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As demand for local and organic produce has ballooned in the last five years, so have other ideas for connecting farmers to customers.
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O) turned in a bigger-than-expected loss as costs ballooned on store openings and heavy discounts aimed at competing with Starbucks (SBUX.
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A 10-0 run gave them a 19-12 advantage, and the margin ballooned to 23-15 on a 3-pointer by Brunson.
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For years, however, the court has been drowning under an ever-growing backlog that has ballooned under this administration's watch to 28503,22019 cases.
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So the total number of veg-somethings hasn't changed, but veg-something food options have ballooned, not only in number but in quality.
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He endured a six-run first inning Friday night when his season ERA ballooned to 9.16 after nine starts in his comeback attempt.
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Congo's economy suffered from a sharp drop in crude prices in 2014, and debt levels had ballooned to 118% of GDP by 2017.
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The cost of providing special education preschool has ballooned in recent years, particularly in New York City, where the city administers the reimbursements.
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Over the past five years, the market for assistant-using smart speakers — Amazon's Alexa and its Echo smart speakers in particular — has ballooned.
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A field that once ballooned to two dozen candidates is now down to a two-man race between Joe Biden and Bernie Sanders.
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The country's economy continues to suffer, and foreign debt has ballooned from $35 billion in December 2010 to $92.6 billion in June 2018.
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Under Obama the overall sales, pending delivery of equipment and specialised training for troops, to Saudi Arabia alone has ballooned to $21 billion.
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The growth was fueled largely by outbound Chinese travelers, whose numbers have ballooned from 10.5 million in 2009 to 62.4 million in 2018.
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By 2016, the indictment said, the size of some of these Russian-controlled Facebook groups had ballooned to hundreds of thousands of followers.
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The size of company's lobbying staff has ballooned in recent years, according to public filings, focusing largely on drones, transportation, taxes and cybersecurity.
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In memoriam: Stephen Hillenburg, a former marine biology teacher, created "SpongeBob SquarePants," the children's TV show that ballooned into an unlikely cultural phenomenon.
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The controversy surrounding Mr. Moore's impending nomination ballooned after his views, particularly those he shared in opinion pieces he wrote, surfaced this month.
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This tax cut benefited you and your shareholders, but it also ballooned our annual government deficit to more than $1 trillion a year.
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This follows a first quarter in which profits ballooned by 24.6 percent and 78 percent of companies announced profits that exceeded analysts' expectations.
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The rate of crossings has ballooned this year, to several hundred per day, leading Brazil's military to deploy additional troops to the border.
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Durham, like other ancient temples including Salisbury and Winchester, is ultimately saved by its handsome endowments, including property holdings whose value has ballooned.
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Health-care spending has ballooned to 18 percent of the nation's gross domestic product and is expected to reach 20 percent by 2025.
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Groups for podcasts like "Crime Junkie" and "Shameless" have ballooned to tens of thousands of members, and in some cases more than 100,000.
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Today, huge private equity and venture funds are similarly chasing a limited pool of investment opportunities, but their bets have ballooned to billions.
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It has since ballooned to 28503 percent today, on its way to a projected 22019 percent by 2027 and 200 percent by 2050.
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The company had already proven its willingness to spend heavily, with a sales and marketing budget that ballooned to $375 million in 2018.
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Facebook's spending has ballooned from licensing more engaging content such as video, and as it tries to fortify itself against fraudsters and hackers.
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Now, it's basically the copy-paste solution for any mental health woe one could experience and has ballooned into a $4 billion industry.
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This series has a pattern of wild swings caused by approvals for large multi-unit blocks, which ballooned 42 percent in January alone.
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So the budget for the festival and the nearby temporary city ballooned to $600 million, three times the cost of the 2013 festival.
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During the same period, the median rent ballooned by more than 60 percent, according to The Joint Center for Housing Studies of Harvard University.
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In 2013, China's online retail sales totaled $280 billion, but that figure ballooned to $1.34 trillion in 2018, according to Ministry of Commerce statistics.
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CEO pay ballooned, wages stagnated for America's middle class, and fewer private-sector jobs were created than before the tax cuts went into effect.
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Cost blowouts at Fletcher have been blamed on a fast-moving labour market that turned high-profile contracts into liabilities as wage bills ballooned.
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Instead there were narrow spots followed by tiny ballooned-out bulges, making the blood vessels look in places like a disorderly string of beads.
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The delay shines a negative light on Fox's apology, which comes as complaints about the images have recently ballooned with celebrities stirring the controversy.
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Much of that growth came from deep learning, which overtook robotics as it ballooned from 118 patent applications in 2013 to 2,399 in 2016.
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Despite record exports in U.S. crude oil, inventories have ballooned to a new high week after week, threatening a speedy rebalancing of the market.
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In the eight years since its founding, WeWork has ballooned into one of the world's biggest coworking startups, with locations in dozens of countries.
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Five years later, it had ballooned to $160 billion, concentrated in the credit-starved black neighborhoods of South Los Angeles, Chicago, Baltimore, and Brooklyn.
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They were simple plastic masks that fit snuggly around the nose and mouth and had ballooned over the years to cover the entire face.
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Yao warned that prices had ballooned to "unsustainable levels", and that ample credit and relatively relaxed property policies would continue to drive prices higher.
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But then Spitzer had that whole sex-with-a-hooker thing and resigned, and without his watchdogs, the costs ballooned to FOUR BILLION DOLLARS.
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I've written about architecture for a long time, and I've tried very hard to think about another project that so famously ballooned over budget.
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The prize money for last year's tournament ballooned to more than $8813 million, making it the most super rich fishing competition in the world.
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The cost of programming has ballooned—well above $10m an hour for "Game of Thrones"—as viewers increasingly expect blockbuster quality from their shows.
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SINCE the number of migrants making their way to Europe through Greece ballooned in 2015, Greek and EU officials have been scrambling to cope.
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New York missed six of its first eight free throws in the session as its deficit ballooned to 106-88 with 5:47 remaining.
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Last year, total pet spending, including food, supplies and services, ballooned to nearly $67 billion from $60 billion the year before, the APPA reports.
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The Fed ballooned its balance sheet during the financial crisis, when it bought mortgages and Treasurys as part of its extraordinary quantitative easing programs.
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The country's prison population has ballooned to the world's third-largest, trailing only the United States and China, according to the World Prison Brief.
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She says that 15 years ago she took a $12 loan from a brick factory owner that has ballooned to $2,800-worth of debt.
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Although Indians have traditionally used gold as part of a bride's dowry and as an offering at temples, demand has ballooned in recent years.
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As urban prices have ballooned, many have looked to the Hudson Valley for more affordable spaces and attractions, including the arts and local farming.
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In recent years, China's commercial property outflow has ballooned as individual and institutional investors in the country have looked globally for real estate investment.
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Just 41 incidents were reported on college campuses in 2016, a number that ballooned to 147 reports the following year, according to the ADL.
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Severino — who gave up five runs in the third inning, all with two outs — dropped to 0-3 while his E.R.A. ballooned to 6.86.
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The sums paid for local and overseas rights by Chinese firms have ballooned by as much as ten-fold over the last few years.
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But in recent years, thanks in part to climate change, the annual average has ballooned to 15 and is expected to continue to grow.
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Without the write-offs and with the incremental bad debt the pile may have ballooned to nearly $175 billion by the end of June.
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In general, as the number of inmates has ballooned, prisons have become desperate for new hires, raising questions about their vetting policies, Fathi said.
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The fire ballooned to more than eight times is previous size on Thursday, prompting the evacuations of smaller towns to the south and east.
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Perhaps now that the threat has ballooned into a region-wide crisis, those in charge of preventing these disasters will start to pay attention.
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And with all the comparisons to Reagan, Bernstein pointed out that under Reagan, the national debt ballooned from around 25 percent to 40 percent.
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The inclusion of the video streaming feature comes as Indians' appetite for consuming media content on the internet has ballooned in the recent years.
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Cash holdings, on the other hand, ballooned to 20.6 percent of the portfolio compared to les than 13 percent at the end of 2014.
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But the matter quickly ballooned to include explicit details of the president's personal life and his affair with a White House intern, Monica Lewinsky.
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The company's fourth-quarter loss ballooned to $1.17 billion, or $2.00 per share, from $94 million, or 16 cents per share, a year earlier.
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The deficit ballooned to $531 billion from the beginning of October to the end of April, well above the previous year's $85033 billion mark.
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Ticket prices were cut and the number of people wealthy enough to travel ballooned but airlines now face growing competition and rising oil prices.
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The group found Canada's household debt-to-GDP (gross domestic product) ratio had ballooned to 101 percent — significantly higher than any other nation studied.
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The cost of the Hitachi project in Wales has ballooned to 3 trillion yen ($27.4 billion) due to tougher safety measures, the newspaper said.
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From an initial refugee population of around 700,000, according to UNRWA, the current number of Palestinians receiving UNRWA aid has ballooned to 5.4 million.
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For Mr. Starr, he prepared poulet en vessie, a luxe Gallic hat trick in which chicken is cooked inside a ballooned-up pig's bladder.
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The ranks of the caravans this fall eventually ballooned to more than 7,000 with groups fleeing El Salvador, Guatemala, and Nicaragua joining the march.
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They exchanged photos, but Blazer's weight had ballooned so grotesquely that Blanks was unable to pick him out in the group shot he sent.
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In recent years, Chinese trade with region has ballooned — hitting $170 billion last year, four times larger than that between the U.S. and Africa.
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Mulvaney has been privately pushing Trump to get more aggressive about cutting spending, but debt and deficits have, so far, only ballooned under Trump.
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Facebook and Twitter don't break out the costs directly related to locking down and cleaning up their networks, but broader measures of expenses ballooned.
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This past week, thanks to the absence of American sports, the site ballooned to more than 100,000 visitors, according to co-founder Jesse Rowe.
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At the time of the deal, the app had about 30 million users, a number that has since ballooned to more than a billion.
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Their population has ballooned to more than 100,000 by some estimates — and they're rapidly swallowing up other species in the marshlands west of Miami.
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The question of equality of treatment among judges has gained urgency as the number of cases in immigration court has ballooned to record highs.
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Those numbers have ballooned in the last two years under the Trump administration, drawing new attention to the terrible conditions detainees are living in.
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Applications ballooned during the Obama administration following a surge in unaccompanied minors crossing the U.S.-Mexico border, many from violent countries in Central America.
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Not too much involvement from Mo Salah yet, though Egyptian players have ballooned a number of speculative balls to his side of the field.
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Expenses have ballooned with hiring of thousands of salespeople, building of new data centers and marketing the Google brand through hardware and other ventures.
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Over the last four decades, that spread has ballooned to a factor of 17 with agriculture at the bottom at approximately one billion dollars.
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The number of striking workers ballooned to nearly 500,000 in 2018, up from about 25,000 in 20203, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics.
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After nearly eight years of construction, the cost of the bridge and tunnel project has ballooned to some $19 billion, at the last estimate.
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The 31-year-old gave up six runs (five earned) on seven hits in 4 1/963 innings as his ERA ballooned to 6.00.
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Mozambique's foreign debt has ballooned in the last four years, largely due to expectations it was set to become a major natural gas producer.
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Many point to Wisconsin, where a package of incentives given to open a new Foxconn manufacturing plant has ballooned to more than $2628 billion.
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The NSC ballooned to around 400 staffers under Obama, who was heavily criticized for consolidating decision-making in the White House and micromanaging policy.
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What started as a modest protest by a small group of Mohawks ballooned into a series of nationwide disruptions of various sizes and duration.
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The Pirates' lead had ballooned to 113 points on a 3-pointer by Powell that made it 74-50 with 23:23 to go.
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The account, which added 32,000 followers within two months of being started, had ballooned to more than 77,000 followers by early in the evening.
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I sent five dollars to a PayPal account, and that afternoon my follower count ballooned, from seventy thousand to more than a hundred thousand.
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While she was Instagram famous in the cheerleading world before "Cheer," her Instagram following has ballooned to 1.1 million since the docuseries was released.
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The venture was considered economically unviable and indeed, in the years that followed, the port sat empty and neglected, and Sri Lanka's debt ballooned.
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Previous Republican tax cuts in 2001 and 2003, he argued, did not lead to significant boosts in jobs and growth, and ballooned the deficit.
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According to International Monetary Fund estimates, emerging market corporate debt outstanding ballooned from around $10 trillion in 2009 to around $25 trillion at present.
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But the unrest ballooned into a widespread movement fed by anger over Venezuela's triple-digest inflation, shortages of food and medicine, and high crime.
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Bolstered by a rapidly expanding ecosystem of online distribution marketplaces, independent games ballooned, touching every part of the industry and reshaping the entire landscape.
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That exhibition ballooned into a much broader 2015 survey called "Hippie Modernism: The Struggle for Utopia," in which he traced countercultural projects across borders.
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At the University of California, San Diego, introductory lecture courses have ballooned to up to 400 students to accommodate both majors and non-majors.
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The overall burden to the state, including health care and criminal justice costs and lost worker productivity, has ballooned into the billions of dollars.
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Separately, in a setback for Mr. Trump, the U.S. trade deficit in goods ballooned to $891.3 billion in 2018, its highest level in history.
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But newcomers didn't grasp how irrational things had become: At the peak, prices on some homes ballooned by more than 25 percent within months.
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Over the past two years, the probe ballooned into a sweeping corruption investigation that has jailed members of Brazil's highest political and social echelons.
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When Garriott finally flew in 2008, the price had ballooned to $30 million and, at the time, that was almost all the money he had.
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The flames were first reported Thursday and ballooned quickly in a part of New Mexico hardest hit by a severe drought gripping the American Southwest.
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Freeport debt ballooned with two ill-timed acquisitions of oil and natural gas producers in 2013, as it diversified beyond copper, gold and molybdenum mining.
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The number of active-matter papers in journals and at physics conferences has ballooned in recent years, as physicists have increasingly embraced the living world.
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Global payments ballooned to $21 trillion in 2200 and are forecast to grow to $2 trillion by 2020, according to an October report by McKinsey.
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In 2017, insured losses from U.S. wildfires ballooned to $16 billion — the first year globally that fire losses surpassed $10 billion, according to Aon Benfield.
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As the public debt ballooned, its debt-to-GDP ratio trailing only Greece and Japan, the government sought to pass a series of austerity measures.
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The problem has ballooned into a public health crisis, officials say, leaving elected leaders scrambling for solutions as discarded needles pile up in the streets.
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A two-bedroom flat that used to cost $300 a month now costs up to $3,000 after demand for rentals ballooned to accommodate Chinese residents.
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From 1990 to 2017, the population of Bozeman ballooned from 22,827 to 46,20163; in 2018, it was named the fastest-growing city of its size.
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Quantitative easing became popular on a global scale after the Federal Reserve enacted three rounds of QE that ballooned its balance sheet to $4.5 trillion.
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Simmons drove to the basket to cap a 200-233 run just 1023:2102 into the third and the Sixers' lead ballooned to 286-23.
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The interest in adaptogens by a mainstream, not particularly granola/crunchy consumer has ballooned this year, according to both Bacon and the Detox Market's Severin.
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It had been hamstrung by political backlash in the state, and polling showed that a majority of Californians disapproved of the plan as costs ballooned.
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Virtual currencies have existed for years but speculation in them has recently ballooned - along with scams promising investors returns of over 1,000 percent in weeks.
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Donald Trump's campaign cash haul ballooned in July even as spending increased, but the Republican still trailed Democratic rival Hillary Clinton in the money race.
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Under Mr Mahama inflation soared, the economy slowed and public debt ballooned, with much of the borrowed money squandered on higher wages for public employees.
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I added all these hashtags, and then a lot of other people were able to find it and it kind of just ballooned from there.
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The firms would later pull hundreds of millions of dollars out of the company via dividend recaps, which ballooned its debt load to unmanageable levels.
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By the following year, this number had ballooned to almost 215,000, with over 117,20133 total posts, and an average of 11,000 unique visitors each week.
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Fourth, GE pays little attention to the total capital it employs, which has ballooned by about 50% over the past decade (excluding its financial arm).
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The balance sheet holds the various bonds and other financial instruments the Fed has purchased over the years, and it has ballooned to $4.5 trillion.
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"KHC's EBITDA has not grown over the last five years, its revenue has declined, and its balance sheet has ballooned," said analysts at JP Morgan.
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The current account deficit widened 43 percent to $18 billion in the year that ended June 30, while the fiscal deficit ballooned to 6.6 percent.
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The list ballooned from 55 campuses in its first release on May 1, 2014, to 55 in the latest version issued Wednesday by the department.
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ACRONYM ballooned in 2019, thanks in part to support from David Plouffe, Obama's celebrated 2008 campaign manager and a former senior vice president at Uber.
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His ERA ballooned to 2.73 after the five-inning effort, during which he gave up a three-run home run to Giants LHP Madison Bumgarner.
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The pressure told as a forehand ballooned off the frame of Nadal's racquet and another backhand sailed long to put the match on level terms.
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Costs rose 40 percent to about $4.71 billion, up from just $3.37 billion a year ago, as headcount ballooned 38 percent from a year ago.
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Not only have administrative salaries and capital improvements exploded across the nation, their cash reserves (separate from their endowments) have ballooned over the past decade.
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Initially only about two dozen Philippine entrepreneurs were to accompany Duterte but the number had ballooned to about 250, Trade Undersecretary Nora Terrado told Reuters.
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Assets under management in smart-beta strategies have ballooned from $103 billion in 2008 to $616 billion in 2015, according to Morningstar, the data provider.
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The debt will help finance a stubbornly high fiscal deficit, which ballooned after decades of populist rule, largely due to generous spending on social programs.
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Whoever wins faces a difficult economic outlook with a budget deficit that has ballooned in recent years amid a slump in oil and gas prices.
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The balance sheet ballooned during three rounds of bond buying the central bank conducted in an effort to boost the economy after the Great Recession.
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Exotic space-ready parts, militarized defenses and layered redundancies ballooned into multi-billion-dollar systems designed to last 40 years or more beyond their conceptions.
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Alabama's lead ballooned to 23 with four minutes to play, as Auburn was never able to mount a serious challenge after the early scoring drought.
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Illinois' unprecedented budget impasse between its Republican governor and Democrats who control the legislature has ballooned the state's unpaid bill pile to about $15 billion.
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Bank of Ireland, like all Irish banks, is under pressure from the European Central Bank to reduce bad loans which ballooned after Ireland's property crash.
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Thirteen years later, sewage releases have ballooned—and they're only going to get worse as the climate continues to warm and infrastructure continues to crumble.
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Still, with so many jobs in welding and construction and transportation, the population ballooned to more than 2000,22015 at its peak from 210,000 in 2000.
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The big winner by far in economic growth terms behind the former Iron Curtain has been Poland, where GDP has ballooned by almost $600 billion.
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The federal deficit ballooned in the 2009 fiscal year, as the government ramped up spending and tax revenues fell in the wake of the crisis.
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It is a successful business model only getting more successful -- by Symantec's statistics, the average ransom ballooned from $294 in 2015 to $1,077 in 85033.
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By contrast, finance ballooned as high as 22.3 percent at the end of 2006, in what can be seen in hindsight as a financial bubble.
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Oyo's business has ballooned beyond budget hotel rooms to office-sharing, student accommodation, high-end Airbnb-style "homes," upmarket business hotels, and even magazine publishing.
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What started in the semi-autonomous territory as a protest against a extradition bill has ballooned into a fight to uphold democracy in the city.
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In the last 2628 years, section 28503(k) of the tax code ballooned from an obscure provision to the foundation of the U.S. retirement system.
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But the report raises questions about the costs of protecting government officials at the same time as those figures have ballooned under the Trump administration.
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In other states, the number of children referred to child welfare programs has ballooned, even if those kids do not end up in foster care.
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The US immigration detention has ballooned since the turn of the millennium, doubling in size between 240 and 2010 amidst a national crackdown on immigration.
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In a year, it has ballooned to 42 members, said Michael Brooks, a former N.A.I.A. administrator who joined the N.A.C.E. as its first executive director.
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He made no reference to the budget deficit, which has ballooned because of his tax cuts, though he promised during the campaign to eliminate it.
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The proposal lingered for years as its projected costs ballooned and was finally defeated by a coalition of fiscal conservatives and antinuclear lawmakers in 1983.
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In fact, the president's market-moving tweets ballooned in August as he hammered China on trade and went after the Federal Reserve on interest rates.
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Though poor and largely without outside aid, we have shared what we have with refugees, to the point where the region's population ballooned in size.
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Its unpaid bill backlog has ballooned to $15 billion, leaving state universities, social service and health care providers and scores of vendors starving for cash.
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Imposed when government was small and taxes were close to nonexistent, tariffs ballooned in size and scope as the nation grew after the Civil War.
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In April, the current account deficit stood at $1.33 billion - a far cry from the nearly $8 billion it had ballooned to by end-2017.
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The army of organizers they hired when fundraising and polling were at their peak — it ultimately ballooned to over 1,000 people — had become a straitjacket.
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By the time the group had crossed the border into Guatemala, its members traveling by foot and vehicle, it had ballooned to more than 1,000.
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Costs for the project, which is known as East Side Access and is expected to open in 2022, have ballooned to more than $11 billion.
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Most of the world's tungsten comes from China, where the government has been exerting greater control over production, in part because domestic demand has ballooned.
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The team eventually ballooned from six to around 20 agents, all with vehicles -- bringing the cost to more than double that of protecting Pruitt's predecessor.
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Since the early 1970s, when Canada embraced multiculturalism, the percentage of what it calls "visible minorities" has ballooned to about 20 percent of the population.
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Equity passive funds alone, which include index funds, have ballooned to a more than $3 trillion market in less than 10 years, according to Morningstar.
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But if Tesla's market value ballooned, as the payment plan predicted, those stock awards could be worth nearly $56 billion, according to a public filing.
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Over the past five years, the market for smart speakers that use virtual assistants — Amazon's Alexa and its Echo smart speakers in particular — has ballooned.
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But when the waitlist ballooned to 213 people, the office shifted priorities, converting 22019 counseling slots from ongoing care to quick visitation for faster access.
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But fear of litigation aimed at stopping projects has ballooned the size of the average statement well past the recommended limits to over 600 pages.
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In October, a group formed in Honduras ballooned to 7,000 or more by the time it reached southern Mexico, its numbers boosted by TV coverage.
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The total haul cost the city $409 million last year, a price tag that ballooned after City Hall reformed its waste management system in 2006.
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When he came to, he discovered that his eyes, nose and lips had ballooned because peanut butter had been rubbed on his face, she wrote.
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It is a successful business model only getting more successful — by Symantec's statistics, the average ransom ballooned from $22019 in 2015 to $1,077 in 2016.
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In its heyday, WeWork's workforce ballooned to 12,000 employees, but it all went south when the company failed to pull off an initial public offering.
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There's nothing particularly wrong with executive orders -- George Washington and Thomas Jefferson used them and they ballooned under Republicans Ulysses S. Grant and Teddy Roosevelt.
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The balance sheet ballooned with the Fed's quantitative easing program, under which it bought securities during and after the financial crisis to help the economy.
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Their foreign liabilities ballooned to 451 billion riyals ($124 billion) in March from 310 billion riyals at the end of 2015, central bank data shows.
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When he came to, she said, he discovered that his eyes, nose and lips had ballooned because peanut butter had been rubbed on his face.
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Amazon's "unconditional purchase obligations," a required disclosure for future payment agreements, ballooned to $24.2 billion in 303, according to its 10-K filing last month.
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The discussions inside the administration come as the budget deficit has ballooned past $1 trillion, driven partly by the tax cuts Trump signed into law.
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Since 85033, the number of mass-shootings has ballooned by 183 percent and the number of deaths in mass-shootings rocketed up by 239 percent.
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Seventeen prime ministers came and went, the Japanese economy slipped into a funk and the initial $26 billion budget ballooned into $2000 billion of spending.
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Traffic laws went up in smoke as a swell of onlookers at the front of the line ballooned out into two lanes of street traffic.
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It's easier than ever to access illicit goods and services under the radar, and the informal economy of unlicensed and untaxed business has also ballooned.
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Indeed, data out on Tuesday showed Australia's trade surplus ballooned in February, nudging the country nearer to its first current account surplus since the mid-1970s.
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When the electric field was turned on, the spiders ballooned; the likely cause of this is spiders&apos sensory hairs, known as trichobothria, the researchers believe.
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The company's losses ballooned to over $2.2 billion, but most of those were one time expenses related to stock bonuses paid out after a successful IPO.
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Government bond auction sizes have ballooned since the start of 2018 as the United States takes on debt to pay for President Donald Trump's tax cuts.
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"I think part of the problem is there hasn't been any enforcement in the past; that's why this has ballooned to such large proportions," said Onishi.
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It's only ballooned into more of a wonder since its release: each song bleeds into the next, laying bare his loneliness and confusion, desperation and desire.
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The unprecedented impasse, which ended with the enactment of a fiscal 2018 budget in July, ballooned the state's unpaid bill backlog to more than $15 billion.
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The payroll system was originally budgeted in 2003 to cost $63 million, but by 2011 the cost had ballooned to about $700 million, federal prosecutors said.
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His administration postponed a parade that had been planned for Veterans Day in November 2018 after costs ballooned to $90 million, three times the initial estimate.
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Proponents say the proposal addresses a debt burden that has ballooned over the last decade and has stunted the financial lives of a generation of Americans.
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Image: CDCOver the past nine months, the number of US cases of an emerging, multi-drug resistant fungus has ballooned from 7 to more than 122.
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He was ready to clock out and start a Caribbean vacation when what started as a small incident ballooned into a terrifying and life-changing event.
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The number of mostly Central American families crossing the U.S.-Mexico border and seeking asylum in the United States has ballooned in recent months, straining resources.
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Google's cost of revenue for the second quarter also ballooned to more than $10 billion, up from around $8.1 billion in the second quarter last year.
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In turn, the country's prison population has ballooned to the world's third-largest, trailing only the United States and China, according to the World Prison Brief.
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Uber was forced to cough up $20 million to settle with the Federal Trade Commission in 2017 over its own sketchy ads promoting ballooned potential earnings.
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The pension-plan deficits of companies and local governments have ballooned because it costs more to honour future pension promises when interest rates fall (see article).
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Since then, Messenger has ballooned to nearly one billion monthly users and offers a distinct ecosystem to make money without relying on basic News Feed ads.
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The East African country has turned to so-called public-private partnerships (PPPs) to finance the construction of highways and other infrastructure after public debt ballooned.
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The combination of a rapidly growing working-age population and a rising labor force participation rate (as women poured into the workforce), ballooned the labor force.
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Moody's so-called watch list has ballooned to 27 names from 22 companies this summer, as a load of retail debt is coming due in 2018.
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Applications have ballooned to record highs, with 29,000 pending, 23,000 of which were for Uber and the rest divided between Grab and u-Hop, she said.
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But critics argue the move created huge debt: During the course of Reagan's eight-year term, credit levels ballooned from $994 billion to almost $2.9 trillion.
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The U.S. central bank also said it would start to reduce its $4.2 trillion worth of bond holdings that ballooned through three rounds of quantitative easing.
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The latest data shows that 28503B discounts have ballooned in recent years, from over $22019 billion in drug sales in 1997 to $12 billion last year.
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Alibaba announced over the weekend that Singles Day sales had ballooned up to $25.4 billion in 2017 — up 42 percent when compared to the previous year.
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Marlins 6, Mets 4 The nearly unfathomable spate of injuries the Mets have incurred this season have often ballooned from minor nicks into season-ending ailments.
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Ms. Lima said that her six-mile commute, which usually takes about half an hour, had ballooned to more than two hours since the Olympics started.
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The "trial penalty" – the difference between the sentence after pleading guilty and the sentence after trial – has ballooned in federal court, often due to mandatory minimums.
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The health care industry in the United States has ballooned to $3.5 trillion a year and retailers are increasingly trying to latch onto the booming market.
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According to Mychal, when Trayce ballooned up to 22 pounds at a month old, he wondered if there was a future offensive tackle in the family.
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Trump and his top administration officials, including Mnuchin, had frequently bragged about the stock market as it ballooned in value during his first year in office.
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It opened as one of California's first drive-through restaurants and has since ballooned to 334 restaurants spanning six states, gaining fans all along the way.
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As politicians debate policy solutions, the number of students in temporary housing has ballooned to 114,659 students as of last spring, from 69,244 children in 2010.
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In early trade, Italian yields slid over 100 bps and the spread to German debt, which ballooned in recent sessions, has fallen back below 200 bps.
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As use of the social media platform has ballooned in recent years, so have cases of extremist fringe groups using Facebook's reach to magnify their messages.
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But after they discovered the structural problems, their renovation budget of $900,000 ballooned to about $1.3 million, and the timeline grew to more than two years.
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A wildfire north of San Francisco ballooned to tens of thousands of acres within hours of being touched off last September, sweeping through two small towns.
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Student loan debt in the United States has ballooned to $1.5 trillion, prompting calls from some Democratic presidential candidates for free public colleges and debt cancellation.
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A Facebook group for Zoom memes has ballooned, while Instagram is full of people screencapping their Zoom conferences with accompanying hashtags like #unity, #isolation, and #coronavirussucks.
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"The Tonys, but for high school," as Mr. Kaplan envisioned it, has ballooned to involve over 183,300 high schools and 50,000 students at the local level.
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Her ranking ballooned to No. 946 in 2015, but by last year she had whittled it down to 287th by playing tiny tournaments in Stillwater, Okla.
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The Nittany Lions' lead ballooned to 68-44 when Dread sank a long-range jumper from the left side with just under 10 minutes to go.
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Since Daisuke Nakazawa opened his omakase sushi parlor in 2013 in the West Village, similar spots have turned up all over Manhattan, and prices have ballooned.
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Fears over the coronavirus outbreak ballooned this week after the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said it expects cases in the US to increase.
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Britain's Pension Protection Fund said earlier this week that plunging UK rates had ballooned the deficit of its member funds by 37 percent in January alone.
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As Orchard X struggled to get going, he said, legal documents for trades had "ballooned to 150 pages from a 20-page contract," leaving him exasperated.
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The lead deception became public during de Blasio's tenure and ballooned into a full-fledged scandal, leading to the resignation of his NYCHA chair Shola Olatoye.
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Dr. Gross recalled that, when recent government shutdowns suddenly ballooned the numbers turning to emergency food pantries, some of these quickly started having trouble keeping up.
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These trends are playing out as employers shift away from pensions and embrace high-deductible health plans, and as the cost of higher education has ballooned.
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The federal deficit has ballooned during the Trump presidency and will widen to $1 trillion for the 2020 fiscal year, according to the Congressional Budget Office.
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For example, Boeing is currently building NASA's next big rocket, the Space Launch System, this way, and the vehicle's development has ballooned several billions of dollars.
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During that November to November period, sales of oat milk ballooned 662%, and sales of the more established almond milk grew about 6%, according to Nielsen.
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More generally, however, they brush off cost concerns by pointing to unquestioned government spending on wars and tax cuts, which have ballooned deficits in the past.
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The lead ballooned to 33 points in the first half as Perry and Carter combined to score as many points (23) as Coastal Carolina by halftime.
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Venture capital investments into United States-based companies ballooned to $28 billion in 22013, the highest level since 2000, according to CB Insights, a data provider.
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After its early triumphs, Godzilla's membership ballooned — a 1997 grant report listed listed 231 members — and grew to include more South Asian and Southeast Asian artists.
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Verlander surrendered seven earned runs on eight hits in five innings against the Indians as his record dropped to 2-3 while his ERA ballooned to 6.49.
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But neglect and natural disasters have since caused it to cut back operations by two-thirds, even as the capital's population has ballooned to about 13 million.
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For example, some unconfirmed reports last year suggested that the budget for Batman v Superman, widely reported as $250 million, ultimately ballooned past the $400 million mark.
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On the second night of a back-to-back, Minnesota was lifeless much of the second half and Detroit's lead ballooned to as much as 214 points.
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Its budget has repeatedly ballooned and its launch date has been pushed back several times as the project's goals became more ambitious and unexpected issues turned up.
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From 1999 to 2000, the weight of the average adult man was 189.4 pounds, but from 22000 to 263.7, that average weight had ballooned to 22015 pounds.
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Like Uber, Amazon debuted with losses in 22019, but its stock price has since ballooned and its net income grew to $22020 billion in the last quarter.
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Interest in digital currency has ballooned in the last few years, with industry insiders encouraging Black consumers and women of all backgrounds to get in the game.
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