blowing

The swift response from companies underscores the pressure to distance themselves from political commentary that risks blowing back on their reputations.

Within a few days, I escalated to blowing leaves out from under the shrubs, and remembered the bucolic autumns of my Midwestern childhood and jumping into leaf piles raked patiently by my grandfather.

Soon after starting the Free Press, Weiss wrote that after blowing up her career at the New York Times, “I knew I was done with the legacy media—and it was certainly done with me.”

And by losing a potential clinching Game 3 Wednesday night at a stunned and boo-filled Chavez Ravine, the Dodgers are suddenly and dangerously close to blowing it.

Negotiations have dragged on over the summer, blowing past an August deadline set by the two leaders.