The Dole campaign is talking about a balloon drop.

A decorative use for balloons is in balloon drops.

The tapes were replayed across America as an image of this city that threatened to be more definitive than any red, white and blue balloon drop.

Related concern - the prospect of a balloon drop with a "fall time" measurable in nanoseconds.

Programs ran behind schedule, there was dissension among the delegates and even a carefully planned balloon drop did not work on opening night.

"There will not be a balloon drop," she said.

Rumor has it she was trampled to death during a balloon drop at a mall opening.

The final show was also the first to feature a live studio audience, as well as a balloon drop at the end of the show.

To grapple with the first problem, he said, "they're going to have do really small balloons for the balloon drop."

And Republican operatives who watched a botched balloon drop said that they are not sweating their own.