Word: adrenaline
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...also a hotel catering for up to 19 guests, with tours of the telescopes and fine dining included in the room rate. Access is by cable car from the ski resort of Le Tourmalet, and in winter skiers savor the adrenalin rush of a descent from the 9,439-ft. (2,877 m) summit...
Congress and the Administration are concerned about the economy but the panic and the adrenalin rush which accompanies it have not hit with a full force. The prospect of another 524,000 people being put out of work in just 30 days and the likelihood that the situation will only get worse as industries from retail and automotive cut more people may be the only thing that drives an admittedly imperfect set of bills though Congress, to the President's desk, and into the bureaucracy that must implement the programs...
...Samantha Peszek, who turned her ankle in the warmup just before the team competition began, had less time to process her injury and how it would impact her Olympic experience. Peszek was first up on the vault, but had to sit out all events but the uneven bars. "My adrenalin was pumping, and I wasn't actually thinking about the pain," said Peszek. "They gave me some medicine and surprisingly, it didn't hurt. It was more emotional for me, because it was my dream to compete in the Olympics. No one ever goes through making it on the team...
...walk down Main Street in another small New Hampshire town chanting "Oooooooo Bama” and furiously waving a banner with corresponding typeface, I wait expectantly for the one question that will puncture my adrenalin-induced, partisanship-fueled high...
...they were together in Guantánamo's Camp X-Ray, Hicks told him he was praying to Satan for help. The appraisal finishes with a warning about Hicks: "Release him and see. If I know Golden Boy Hicks, I know that he has to have that last big adrenalin rush even if it takes him out." Abbasi also vents ill-feeling toward the Australian in his conclusion, where he suggests that Hicks is cooperating with the Americans. "As long as I do not dance to your tune like Golden Boy ? and tell you what you want to hear...