After years of overeating and under-exercising, he ballooned to around 360 pounds and felt depressed.
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Under Friedman, Associated's per-share earnings and asset value have deteriorated rapidly, and its debt has ballooned.
Over the next seven months, as negotiations continued, Patrick's group ballooned to 22 clients.
During World War II, the U.S. government budget ballooned to nearly 35% of national GDP.
When those incentives were removed, their tax load ballooned to twice that of their offshore entities.
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In the U.S., texting ballooned in the mid-2000s, as more carriers started offering unlimited plans.
The wild pig population in the U.S. has ballooned to more than 5 million.
The legislation rapidly ballooned, with protective tariffs added for almost every conceivable industry and product.
As the contest has ballooned in size, it has also attracted its share of moneymaking opportunities.
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Since then, Christensen's client list has ballooned to include nontech clients like Merrill Lynchand Andersen Consulting.
When investors flocked to Asia earlier this decade, stockmarkets surged and current-account deficits ballooned.
Corporate underwriting has ballooned as companies seek to reach an educated, affluent and influential demographic.
The number of disputed cases going to trial, average awards and legal costs have all ballooned.
Before that, Ireland ballooned over after great work by Bellamy who had launched a rapid counter attack.
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Oudtshoorn farmers built grand homes along the town's main thoroughfare, and the number of ostrich farms ballooned.
's tabloids, the now-closed News of the World, has ballooned in recent months to include other problems.
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By then, what began as a relatively simple cyberstalking case had ballooned into a national security investigation.
We saw that during the black Christmas of 2008, when the handset market inventory levels suddenly ballooned.
The number of hedge funds focusing on mortgage debt ballooned along with the underlying market in 2005-06.
The number of mobile connections in America has ballooned from 2.7m in 1989 to 277m in mid-2009.
The American prison population ballooned, but even as it ballooned Americans themselves only grew more fearful of crime.
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China's imports have ballooned this year, thanks to its prodigious stimulus spending and a rise in commodity prices.
And we are committed to bringing down the unsustainable debt that has ballooned over the past 10 years.
The ball ballooned into the air and Adebayor was perfectly placed to nod home from almost on the line.
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UConn's lead ballooned to 36 points in the second half of this game.
Business debt was flat, but local and state government debt grew 4.3% and federal government debt ballooned another 18.5%.
Its capitalization ballooned from 5.5 billion shares to a 30 billion share count.
Doctors discovered that his spleen had ballooned to three times its normal size.
Capital markets have ballooned: think, for example, of the development of the junk-bond and asset-backed market in the 1980s.
Newfoundland's health-care budget, for example, has ballooned by 70% over the past decade.
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