Word: shock
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...When an IED explodes next to an armored vehicle in Iraq or Afghanistan, the shock from the blast can cause severe brain injuries to soldiers in the immediate vicinity, even if they are in armored vehicles...
...among the top six scorers. “It’s pretty cool,” he said. “I figured I had a pretty good chance. Obviously I hadn’t competed in Putnam before, but it wasn’t a complete shock.” While teams of three students are chosen to represent their schools each year, other students can also participate individually. Liu, Miller, and Justin J. Bae ’08 were among the next ten highest ranking individuals, each winning a prize of $1,000. Abel, Iurie Boreico...
...told the New York Times that fellow legislators, upon first hearing that Spitzer had hired a hooker, believed it was a practical joke. Says Eric Lane, a law professor at Hofstra University: "This isn't Bill Clinton, where in one sense you would have expected it. This is a shock...
Most recently, a slew of elite universities—led by Harvard and followed by Yale, Stanford, and a host of others—significantly expanded financial aid offerings, potentially making them even more attractive to applicants who had been previously dissuaded by the sticker shock of high tuition...
...letter to their readers, these editors wrote, “We did not see this article before it ran. We felt the same shock and outrage that the rest of the campus felt when they read the opinion Monday afternoon.” Hopefully the new opinions policy will allow wider review of controversial content so that all reservations can be expressed before publication...