But when you travel across multiple time zones, like flying from New York to Moscow, those little pacemaker cells that thought they knew the routine scramble around confused before they can put on their show.
A spate of fundraisings by Chinese biotech companies has highlighted a scramble for leadership of the country's nascent life sciences sector and raised questions over how quickly China can rival the US and Europe as a source of blockbuster medicines.
And so it's this multi-tiered strategy I think where everyone's trying to scramble, and trying to figure out how best to partner with China because it's so important as a movie market.
I used to wait until the last minute and would scramble to get all my duties finished on time.
Researchers in Germany found that the brain is better during sleep than during wakefulness at resisting attempts to scramble or corrupt a recent memory.
But if refugees have money, entrepreneurs will scramble to solve logistical problems and supply them with things to spend the money on.
I used to wait until the last minute and would scramble to get all my duties finished on time.
As individual investors scramble to pull their money out of sagging stock markets, professionals looking to capitalize on the longer-term growth of start-up stars like Didi Kuaidi remain undeterred.
Most students get their exam grade back, flip through to see if the professor made any mistakes, and then promptly shove it into their notebook, never to be seen again until the mad scramble at the end of the semester to study for the final.
But China's surging stocks have produced a scramble for exposure to the gains, particularly from foreign fund managers who may not be benchmarked to China itself, but risk underperforming if they don't find ways of following the rally and any spillover effects.
To him, the words on the page were a scramble of codes, indecipherable, mysterious.
It is the file server's job to make sure that users don't accidentally try to update a file at the same time and scramble the data.
They began to scramble out of the excavation, darting furious glances behind them.
In spite of all the sailors could do we were driven with frightful rapidity towards the foot of a mountain, which rose sheer out of the sea, and our vessel was dashed to pieces upon the rocks at its base, not, however, until we had managed to scramble on shore, carrying with us the most precious of our possessions.
A boat was sent off to me, and in answer to the questions of the sailors as to how I came to be in such a plight, I replied that I had been shipwrecked two days before, but had managed to scramble ashore with the bales which I pointed out to them.
The children saw her from afar, and the girl threw a brush behind her which formed an immense hill of bristles, with thousands and thousands of spikes, over which the nixie was forced to scramble with great difficulty, at last, however, she got over.
" And he made a kick with his wooden shoe at the toad, which just escaped being crushed by managing to scramble into the nettles which grew high by the well's brink.
He managed, however, to scramble out with wet sleeves and bespattered trousers.
While the poor girl was falling she happily caught one of the branches of the willow tree, by the help of which she held herself over the water, and as soon as the baron with his company and the dogs had disappeared through the gate, the girl endeavoured to scramble up, but the branch broke off, and she would have fallen backward among the rushes, had not a strong hand from above seized her at this moment.
