The grocery industry also got a shock last year when Yaohan Japan, a 42- store chain, went bust.
Britain got a shock earlier this month when its third-quarter GDP data showed that it was still stuck in recession.
Potter fans got a shock when fan site Mugglenet claimed it had been shut down by a court after it had broken copyrights against Warner Brothers and JK Rowling.
She added that when she knelt down to touch her mother's neck, to see if there was a pulse, she got a shock because she was "as cold as marble".
Professor LUIGI ZINGALES (Economics, University of Chicago): If you got scared, basically had a bad system in place, you got hit by a major shock, you almost sort of got killed, you got a second chance to live, you're not ready to go back to operation as nothing had happened.
"It's been in the pouch for a little while now and we've been able to see it wriggling around, but when it popped its head out for the first time we got a bit of a shock - we didn't really expect it to be an albino, " said Ms Simmons.
Three and a half years ago Forbes merged its dot-com and magazine editorial staffs, and we magazine editors got a dose of culture shock.
"I got into really a state of shock from changes I heard -- I wouldn't say I saw -- I heard from Tamerlan, " he told CNN.
Zoo director Kim Simmons said staff initially got "a bit of a shock", but the joey was now being well looked after by its parents Kylie and Jason.
Of course, given Sele's 4.61 career ERA, it is a shock he even got a vote.
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Thomas Bosc's conversion went over off an upright to give the visitors a shock lead and it got worse for England when Julien Touxagas intercepted Scott Moore's wayward pass and put Bentley in for France's second try.
But I recently scheduled a few for-pay events and got sticker shock.
"It's a shock to the players that have got contracts, not only for the rest of the season but for next season, " he said.
Adams had first pitched the idea for a heat-shock blocker at Millennium in 2003 but got turned down.
"What's happening at Portsmouth now is less of a shock to me than it was seeing where they got to originally and how much they spent to do so, " said former Portsmouth striker and player-manager Steve Claridge.
The learner was a tape recorded dialogue that purposely got a certain amount of answers wrong to see if the teacher would continue to shock them.
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Both teams needed a positive showing after difficult starts to this campaign, but Villa - for whom Kevin MacDonald is still the caretaker manager after Martin O'Neill's shock exit - were dealt a blow before kick-off as new signing Stephen Ireland got injured in the warm-up.
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