Other items and services tested included a spa treatment, a cruise, bungee jumping, and ice cream.
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Loomis Sayles portfolio manager David Rolley expects the ultimate outcome to be something akin to a bungee jump.
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But anyone planning a visit to Victoria Falls will be relieved to know it's not just about bungee jumping.
The stock of agribusiness giant Bunge Limited ( BG) was a bungee jump nightmare two and a half years ago.
He had grown up playing around heavy equipment at his parents' construction firm and in 1990 started his own bungee-jump company.
If you were bungee jumping and you came out of your shoes, I'd run right up and I'd catch you, baby.
He also added equipment for bungee jumping, mountain biking and go-cart racing.
Magnussen's latest company, Ripe Digital Entertainment, applies the bungee-jump mentality to television.
It should come as no surprise that this over-protected generation now celebrates dangerous and exciting activities like skydiving, rock climbing, and bungee jumping.
"It was a pleasant kind of fear, nerve-tickling, " Kamil Magomedov, a veteran member of the team, said after the bungee jump last year.
You could have them arriving a bit later on with little messages you know, ate fried tortoise, went bungee jumping, that sort of thing.
Eating, say, iguana spleen strikes me as sort of like bungee jumping: the point is not to do it but to have done it.
As Holland notes, the adrenaline rush supplied by dueling can now be had, just as easily, with bungee jumping or the Sydney-to-Hobart yacht race.
His self-styled journey of discovery included stories on endangered lemurs of Madagascar, dying Arabic-Swahili music styles in Tanzania and bungee jumping over the Zambezi River in Zambia.
Lee (as he is often known, thanks to his spell as a brigadier-general) cites a recent relaxation of restrictions on busking and bungee jumping.
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I. in 1995, featuring weird sports like kite-skiing and bungee jumping.
The upper loge, arching toward the rear ceiling like some kind of ski ramp, is so steep that you need a bungee jumper's nerve to sit there.
On the plane to America from India in 1990, he made a to-do list: learn to skateboard and bungee-jump, go on road trips, hang out with girls.
"It could also be some strange, quasi-elaborate hoax meant to embarass Zuck with Eminem references and a silly game called 'Cow-a-bungee, '" Adam Clark Estes wrote for Motherboard.
I'll meet those who depend on this natural world wonder and the mighty Zambezi river that feeds it, as I attempt to bungee jump for the first time!
In that time, the balloon films have undergone a process of evolution, taking in popular crazes such as bungee jumping or special times of the year such as Christmas.
After you fight snarled traffic and aimless tourists, you can look forward to awkward office fun with your colleagues that include rowing competitions, shot put relays and bungee biathlons.
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"I've climbed rocks and gone swimming with sharks, but I won't go bungee jumping, and I've never liked roller coasters because those things aren't in my control, " says John F.
Strapped to it with bungee cords was a chainsaw.
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He made it back just in time, tying a piece of bungee cord to the handle outside, wrapping the other end around his arm, holding the door closed with all his might.
As you know, personal information like height, weight, medical conditions, propensity to take risks (skydiving and bungee jumping, etc.), alcohol consumption and recreational drug use are required disclosures on an insurance application.
While in college in 1992 he formed his first company, Vertical Addictions, which took passengers up 600 feet in a hot air balloon, attached bungee cords to their ankles and pushed them over the side.
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