This year there is no shortage of candidates willing to go through this electoral baptism by fire and ice.
The fire and ice come while grinding through everyday decisions.
Ares gives you your standard fire, Poseidon ice, Zeus lightning and Hades, uh, souls.
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Dragging heavy fire hoses along the ground is never easy, but dragging fire hoses across ice?
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Based on "A Song of Ice and Fire, " the epic fantasy novels by George R.
We will wash water, and warm fire, and cool ice, and underprop the earth.
Martin ("A Song of Ice and Fire") dismisses fan fiction as "unauthorized, derivative" work.
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As author of the original A Song of Ice and Fire books George R.
Martin, author of the best-selling series "A Song of Ice and Fire, " was signing hundreds of books.
In Barton Biggs' fire 'n' ice scenario, bonds are the winners from here on, and stocks are overpriced.
Storm of Swords is the best of the five books Martin has penned in A Song of Ice and Fire.
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Speaking at the IMF's headquarters in Washington, Mr Strauss-Kahn also described the current economic situation as between "ice and fire".
It is a dramatisation of the second book of the "A Song of Ice and Fire" series of novels by George RR Martin.
The epic fantasy adventure is a dramatisation of the second book of the "A Song of Ice and Fire" series of novels by George RR Martin.
Martin's largest "Song of Ice and Fire" novel (the 973-page fan-favorite "A Storm of Swords"), the writer-producer duo are delivering slightly longer episodes to the network.
Martin series, A Song of Ice and Fire.
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His reputation for being unkillable was enhanced when he survived being run over by a fire engine and stabbed with an ice pick.
Participants on a 10-to-12 mile Tough Mudder course wade through waist-deep mud, crawl under barbed wire, submerge themselves in ice water and jump through fire.
At a conference in Ukraine's Black Sea resort of Yalta, International Monetary Fund Director Dominique Strauss-Kahn said the world economy remained stuck "between the ice of recession and the fire of inflation, " and added that while the world financial market crisis was largely over, its consequences would be felt for some time to come.
Jokinen's goal appeared to fire up the Rangers, who tilted the ice over the next five minutes.
When I woke up after the operation to remove the piece of cane, I was curious only about the coal fire opposite my bed and the taste of hospital ice cream.
Nasa is coming under fire for an alarming headline in a news release warning: " Satellites see Unprecedented Greenland Ice Sheet Melt".
Goodwillie remained ice-cool on the spot-kick as he sent Randolph the wrong way to fire home the equaliser.
Paul Hawker, station manager at Buxton fire station, said they believed both cars had lost control on the same area of snow or ice minutes after each other.
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The ice is what he called the risk of a serious slowdown in global economic growth, the fire is the fact that inflation may be back.
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