By late afternoon, I'd fine-tuned my falling-off-a-building sailboard technique to the point where I was bumping along the surface of the lake for minutes at a stretch.
Though I laughed at the warning sign depicting a stick-figure falling head-first off the cliffs, I made sure to keep a safe distance from the drop-off for fear that the wind might actually propel me over.
It was a question he faced repeatedly Monday, when Bauer also faced the embarrassment of accidentally falling off a stage during a pancake 'flip-off' campaign event.
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Then, over Memorial Day weekend in 2011, Breyer broke his right collarbone after falling off his two-wheeler in Cambridge, Massachusetts, where he has a second home.
On the verge of a four day rally, oil futures have gained on the prospects of an OPEC-IEA stand-off, falling stockpiles in the U.S. ahead of peak gasoline consumption given the Fourth of July holiday, and the first hurricane of the Atlantic season, Tropical Storm Arlene, hitting the coast of Mexico.
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Pietersen survived the hat-trick ball but edged just beyond Di Venuto off Neil Killeen before inevitably falling to that man Gibson, who pinned him in front of off-stump with one he angled in.
The full-back was carried off in the first half after falling awkwardly - and he arrived at the Euxton training complex this morning on crutches.
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The Arctic is also reappearing in national-security debates after falling off military radars with the Cold War's end.
Cookie sales have been crumbling--down 5% this year after falling 2% in 2002--but cereal has taken off.
After a decade of on-again, off-again recession, Japan appears to be falling into a semipermanent state of economic decay.
But Durant hit a 3-pointer, which bounced off the rim before falling in, to put Oklahoma City on top 100-99.
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The stock is down about 75% since its December 2011 IPO, falling off a cliff in late-July after lowering its guidance only to continue making its way lower.
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Such a big sell-off, with the Dow falling more than 500 points and continuing to slide on Friday, forces investors to reassess their portfolio.
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After falling behind 16-0, the Spartans pulled off their first bowl victory since 2001 albeit thanks in significant part to Georgia coach Mark Richt's ultraconservative decision to play for a 42-yard field goal during the first overtime, which missed.
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But the senators were disingenuous in exhorting their audiences to "demand presidential leadership" to avoid falling off the fiscal cliff in January -- and wrong to imply that the president has been AWOL on the issue, leaving national security and jobs at risk.
Dramatic video playing over and over on TV and the internet of a cargo 747 aircraft falling out of the sky shortly after take- off at Bagram Air Base has left some nervous fliers even more nervous that this could happen on a passenger airline.
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Accies were not too far away when Brian Easton let rip with a shot that looked harmless until taking a deflection off team-mate Sebastian Sorsa and falling just wide of the target.
James Hildreth never looked entirely comfortable in making 14 off 30 balls before falling lbw to Martin-Jenkins and it was 39-3 when the decision to promote Ben Phillips in the order backfired as he was bowled by a full-length ball from Yasir Arafat.
Besides being off base, the sky-is-falling theory portends two troubling outcomes.
"The stock market will digest the move today and then probably take a breather, but in the short term I don't see it falling very far as there are no incentives for a sell-off, " said Hideyuki Ishiguro, senior investment strategist at Okasn Securities in Tokyo.
Her 8-year-old daughter, Sophia, had broken her arm falling off the monkey bars.
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Cas suffered their main blow when the highly-rated Owen was carried off on a stretcher after falling awkwardly under a tackle from Glenn Hall.
But Blignaut, who last Tuesday hit Australia for a half-century, struck a blazing 58 off 38 balls before falling in the 45th over.
U.S. sales of the once-hot new compact, Cruze, cooled off in June, falling by 24 percent compared with a year earlier, and are down by 7 percent for the year to date.
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Whether it's growth, house prices or investment - everything that's flat or falling in the UK seems to be taking off in Brazil.
After falling short of expectations following its somewhat helter-skelter IPO debut, Facebook simply shook off the whole thing and acquired itself some good Karma.
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From those meetings came heartbreaking and moving portraits of desperate people needing the truck a man who lost his job after falling off an oil rig, an Iraq war veteran, and a Texas-born Latino who needs the truck so he can sell it and pay for veterinary school.
It can also be argued that if the U.S. moves closer to falling off the fiscal cliff it would be bullish for gold, on a safe-haven move by investors.
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