However, inflating out-of-proportion the anxieties of shoe shopping or of ordering wine at a restaurant, has elicited the inevitable swingeing criticism.
"The Nobel Literature Prize had become a cause of a psychological disorder, a token whose value and authority as imagined in China was inflated out of all proportions to its real importance or exchange value in international letters," Lovell writes.
Whether linked to twinning and infant deaths or to novel viruses and other causes of infection, the danger can become inflated out of proportion or curbed with public health measures.
"Driving inflated profits out of doing business has been good for the person who works hard every day, and that will be our lasting impact".
One obvious way of dealing with these bubbles is to take the excessive liquidity that is inflating them out of the system through a combination of tighter monetary policy and better financial regulation against stock market speculation (such as a ban on shorting or restrictions on high-frequency trading).
"His vowels were stretched out, inflated from within; they expanded until they were all but unrecognizable," Tom Piazza wrote recently about how hard it can be to hear him -- but in the teasing murk of his sound, Piazza said, "he opened a window in time for himself".
Corporate giants like Panasonic, Toyota and Hitachi are more likely to pursue defensive intellectual property strategies that involve taking out multiple, overlapping patents to create a "thicket" around technologies to lock out competitors, inflating the overall patent count.
Chest compression was carried out by inflating a pneumatic cuff placed around the chest to a pressure of 25 mmHg and the pressure was maintained for 28 days.
Those banks now face substantial demands given the kind of loans the likes of WaMu and Countrywide churned out in inflating the housing bubble.
Keeping your cheeks inflated and "puffed out", purse your lips and blow out at a pace you can keep up for a while without breathing in.
