Given the company's exposure to economic cycles, it is not surprising that profits have been on a roller coaster over the years.
The market for subscription-based businesses has been something of a roller coaster over the last year, Nurislamova notes, and counts herself lucky to have had her company come through the other side unscathed.
In the early planning stages of Leviathan, had Bolliger & Mabillard declined to make a roller coaster over 300 feet, the park would have gotten another manufacture to design the roller coaster.
"We've been on a psychological roller coaster over the last few days," Antonio Alarcón, a youth organizer with the advocacy group Make the Road New York.
Its 24-hour schedule is particularly appealing to Tomrsemail in Kabul, who "would choose a twenty-four hour deafening roller coaster over a part-time beauty".
The U.S. has the fourth-biggest total of uranium reserves in the world, but uranium, like other commodities, has been on a price roller coaster over the past several years.
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"It's been a little bit of a roller coaster ride over the last 18 months," he says.
"We call that one the spinner," Sean said at another moment, after the ball he'd just thrown forged a path almost like that of a roller coaster turning over.
The $25-million 25-million by Switzerided-built Intamin is known as a giga coaster, a designation for coasters over 300 feet tall.
The excitement, the stress, the endorphins, and the final release when it's all over are a roller coaster of a once in a lifetime journey.
