"I'd get four or five days of good work on it in and then the next two days it is swollen and I have to do everything I can to get the swelling out, " Garrard said.

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Scheduled flights out of Jakarta were canceled, and terrified foreign families joined a swelling crowd at the airport, all desperately trying to get out.

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On June 15, a swelling demonstration in Athens's central square veered out of control.

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Wells Fargo will release its performance figures for the second quarter of the year before the trading bell this Friday, and the bank is expected to come out with yet another record quarter driven by its swelling mortgage business.

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European investors are taking a bigger bite out of dim-sum bonds, giving a fillip to the swelling offshore market in China's currency.

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For awhile each day, she can't feel anything she touches, the arbor out back, the landscape's green tangle, the molehill of her own swelling.

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