The strongmen, rather than jerk it overhead (the easiest part of the lift), had to raise it to their chest, flip it up to shoulder height, then drop it and repeat the lift as often as possible in ninety seconds.

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Two days before they were set to ship, HSN's inspectors discovered that the gift set broke apart when dropped from waist height, failing the network's drop test.

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Cypriot Baghdatis, finalist at the 2006 Australian Open, failed to find his rhythm against the unseeded Dutchman who used his height advantage, a stunning forehand and drop shot to great effect.

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This meant that for the drop-test we were able to let the Panasonic free-fall from a height of three feet, while the GammaTech was dropped from a somewhat less realistic (in terms of likely real-world falls) one foot.

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They share safety features such as fixed sides and a lower front rail height 32 to 36 inches from the floor, compared with roughly 42 inches for the old drop-sides to enable parents to pick up a baby easily.

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