Sentences with phrase «by balloon in»

A Voyage in the Clouds: The (Mostly) True Story of the First International Flight by Balloon in 1785.

And there can be no more stupendous example of silliness than August Andree's attempt to reach the North Pole by balloon in 1897, an elaborate method of committing suicide.

In science, students built model cars propelled by balloons in order to understand the physics of the vehicles.

Not exact matches

When the Bitcoin price peaked at $ 20,000 in December, the value of Mt. Gox's assets (by then including Bitcoin derivatives such as Bitcoin Cash) ballooned to $ 4.4 billion — nearly 10 times the amount Mt. Gox said it lost in the first place.

When Branson isn't risking his body in a hot air balloon or a wetsuit, he looks after it by playing daily tennis matches and swimming, kitesurfing, and paddleboarding in the waters off Necker Island, often in the company of friends like Google co-founder Larry Page and President Barack Obama.

You can also go analog here and make Small Business Saturday an event in your neighborhood by hanging balloons, giving away treats and pointing customers to other businesses they might like.

Airports across the country are seeing lines balloon in size, thanks to a «perfect storm» of conditions — the number of airline passengers has increased to 700 million; there's massive attrition of TSA security screeners each week; TSA has cut staff by 10 percent over the last three years; and not enough passengers have enrolled in TSA's PreCheck program, the Associated Press reports.

It is the latest in a series of setbacks for 1MDB, which has been offloading assets to cut a debt load that ballooned to more than $ 11 billion by 2015.

According to Scotiabank's Derek Holt, who predicts household grocery bills could balloon by as much as 15 % in the next few years, the failure of the international community to settle on a rational policy for handling shortages has led to stockpiling and export bans, which «further impairs supply sides of markets and causes prices to go up even more.»

Two years in the making, Woodle says he created the ballooning hoodie — which takes three seconds to inflate by mouth — as part of a quest to «elevate the small aspects of life,» your weary brainpan included.

Canada has seen its co-efficient increase by 0.02 since the 1970s, whereas the U.S. has seen a relative ballooning of 0.06 in the same time frame.

The value of the Internet economy may be understated in GDP calculations, for example, but the omission is offset by artificial inflations in other sectors like financial services, which ballooned in the run - up to 2008 thanks to risky, unsustainable products like mortgage - backed securities.

During the past two decades, Maitland, now 71, who generally takes four or five vacations a year, has flown in a hot - air balloon over the Swiss Alps, ridden a camel by the Great Pyramid in Egypt, seen India from atop an elephant, and taken in Bangladesh while floating down the Ganges aboard a barge.

The SkyDome was originally intended to cost $ 225 million but by the time the first baseball was hit, the cost had ballooned to over $ 650 million (almost $ 1 billion in today's money).

Many enter into balloon car loans thinking that they'll see an increase in their income by the time the payment is due, often leaving themselves unable to pay down the lump sum.

Steering is made possible by moving the balloons to different altitudes - where stratospheric winds travel in different directions.

Google is at no. 12 for its Project Loon Wi - Fi balloons, followed by Amazon at no. 13, which was praised for the robots it uses in its fulfillment centers.

The government announced earlier this month it would take a 25 % stake in the joint venture with Google to deliver a high - speed internet service powered by helium - filled balloons.

Working with three local internet providers, Google is trying to expand in Indonesia by installing helium - filled balloons in the stratosphere

Its net loss ballooned 129 percent in 2017, driven mostly by financing costs related to a 2016 deal in which Sweden - based Spotify raised $ 1 billion in debt that would convert to shares upon an initial public offering.

By making one large lump sum payment, balloon loans allow borrowers to lower their monthly loan repayment costs in the initial stages of paying back a loan.

The recent drop in yields will be tested by a surge in borrowing by the U.S. government and a ballooning budget deficit.

Maduro's administration has pointedly claimed that the people who will be hurt most by the sanctions aimed at stymieing the nation's ballooning debt will be shareholders in the U.S. Indeed, there is outcry that the potential banning of oil imports from Venezuela — the 3rd biggest supplier of oil to the U.S. behind Canada and Saudi Arabia — will dramatically drive up gasoline prices and hurt the U.S. job market.

Meanwhile construction jobs in New York City ballooned by 4 percent with about 6,300 new jobs, the report found.

Rising house prices and the accompanying wealth effect, courtesy of ballooning equity lines of credit, have kept the economy from faltering as business spending retrenches and exports disappoint — last year real estate was by far the largest contributor to GDP in seven of 10 provinces, including B.C. and Ontario.

Founded by 34 - year - old Kim So Hee in 2004, the company has in 14 years ballooned from an online merchant of trendy goods to a $ 150 million annual business that's spread across beauty, fashion, café and boutique ventures.

This is a confusing experience for the real estate industry, sellers, and buyers, since prices have ballooned for 18 years, interrupted by only one brief dip during the Financial Crisis, and the rule has been that prices will always go up and that you can not lose money in real estate.

While Google has been testing these balloons in the U.S. for the past two years — they have a test site in Winnemucca, Nev. — this is one of the rare times they've actually been spotted by a human being.

Yet instead of enhancing the Fed's conventional powers of monetary control, the ballooning of the Fed's balance sheet has sapped those powers by making it unnecessary for banks to routinely borrow from one another in the federal funds market to meet their legal reserve requirements.

Unsurprisingly, avarice prevailed as some traders speculated in stocks paid for by billions of dollars worth of unsecured checks, causing Kuwait's stock market to inflate like a balloon and pop in a most analogous manner.

He talks about Klein's $ 1.3 billion reduction in infrastructure spending from 1994 to 1997 and his $ 18.9 billion spending on infrastructure from 1998 to 2006 without any reference to the need for even more infrastructure because (1) Klein failed to maintain schools, roads and hospitals (in fact he blew the hospitals up) and (2) Alberta's population ballooned by 500,000 during that period.

The price tag for a natural - gas project in Australia, called Gorgon and jointly owned by the three companies, has ballooned 45 % to $ 54 billion.

The family of Alfie Evans said they have been left «shattered» by his death, as more than 1,000 supporters gathered to release balloons in his memory.

The argument here is that the civil (political) and religious balloons have not been easy to hold together because of the ambivalence toward the church so widely felt by Mexicans in the civic arena.

In return for the guarantee of flying any religious balloon, all churches» balloon strings must be available for handling by government.

They are therefore trivial by most standards, indicating only the ease or difficulty persons have in grasping one or another ideological balloon by which to articulate their behavior.

In between, balloons will drop on the first Mormon to be nominated by a major political party to be president of the United States.

As one who ascends in a balloon rises by casting weights from him, so does the despairing man sink by casting from him the good (for the weight of the good is uplift), he sinks, doubtless he thinks he is rising — he does indeed become lighter.

«We do this by selling stuffed bears and paper balloons in all our stores,» Nielsen says.

My grade - school science teacher demonstrated the chemical reaction of baking soda and vinegar by mixing them in a test tube and placing a balloon over the top so it would inflate from the gas that formed.

The Temecula Valley Balloon and Wine Festival, then known as the Rancho California Balloon and Wine Festival, was started in 1983 by Walt Darren, a commercial airline pilot and avid balloonist and by Evelyn Harker a veteran event organizer and fund raiser.

Once the cacao butter has melted mix in the cacao powder, vanilla and sweetener and blend well by stirring with a metal balloon whisk.

Beat egg whites in the very clean bowl of a stand mixer fitted with the whisk attachment on medium speed until frothy, about 30 seconds (you can also use a handheld beater, or do this by hand with a balloon whisk).

Whisking constantly (by hand with a balloon whisk) while drizzling in the oil very slowly, 1 teaspoonful at a time, until sauce is thickened.

Just 10 years old then, he walked onto the field and proceeded to juggle his soccer ball for the entire intermission — keeping it in the air by bouncing it off his feet, knees, chest, ankles, head and shoulders as if it were a balloon and his body a spring breeze.

The line ballooned up all the way to -162 at Pinnacle by 9:30 AM eastern, but there was some Astros buyback that has caused the line to settle in at -153 for the past two hours.

Between 10 am and noon your child will also be able to have their face painted or get balloons modelled by Artifaces to get them in the match day mood.

Science Sparks learned about gravity and air resistance by dropping eggs in different containers — a parachute, a balloon basket, and nothing.

The balloon latching, a variation of technique first described by Diane Wiessinger in 1998 is useful when teaching staff about the techniques for a deeper latch and prevention of sore nipples for the client.

The documents, and interviews with officials involved in the project, also show that questionable actions by District 181 officials created a deep mistrust with Park District Board members — a rift that caused repeated delays and resulted in the ballooning price tag.