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Now all he had to do was finish in even par to collect the trophy and the biggest single paycheck in golf.
Controlling the budget deficit remains the single biggest challenge for the country's economic policy makers, as interest costs on the accumulated central government debt consumes the equivalent of 30 % of the government's total revenues.
Atkins's own biggest hit single came in 1965, with " Yakety Axe ", an adaptation of his friend saxophonist Boots Randolph's " Yakety Sax ".
Tourism is the single biggest revenue earner, with receipts increasing more than tenfold from US $ 173 million in 1980 to more than US $ 2 billion by 2000.
The movie also featured a soundtrack of popular songs, including a cover version of The Troggs ' " Love Is All Around " performed by Wet Wet Wet that remained at number 1 in the British charts for fifteen weeks and was then the ninth ( now twelfth ) biggest selling single of all time in Britain.
It is the largest programme of its kind globally and the biggest single operational programme of the ILO.
Rock's next single, the rock ballad " Only God Knows Why ", was the biggest hit off the album charting at No 19 on the Billboard Hot 100.
He also provided the lead vocals on a number of songs, including the band's biggest UK chart single, " Silver Machine ", which reached No. 3 in 1972.
The biggest single cause of casualties in World War I was actually artillery, but combined with wire entanglements, machine guns earned a fearsome reputation.
In return, Daley got 47 percent of the team's stock — the biggest single share — and became chairman of the board.
On June 27, 2003, a sister project of the Wikimedia Foundation called Wikiquote was created as a free online encyclopedia of quotations in every language and it is now the biggest single quotation collection in the world.
Recorded coltan production has soared from 147 tonnes in 1999 to 1, 300 tonnes in 2001, and coltan was the country's biggest single export earner in 2001.
Given that there were 25, 000 people working on Shuttle operations, the payroll alone was the Shuttle's single biggest operating cost.
The album opened to sales of 185, 000 and has since been certified platinum in the U. S. The first single " Right Here " has been the biggest success from the album thus far, garnering much mainstream radio play and peaking at number 1 on the mainstream rock chart.
" I'll Never Find Another You " was the biggest selling single in the UK for 1965 and went on to sell 1. 75 million copies worldwide.
Japan is the single biggest country donor to Vietnam.
Polluting water may be the biggest single misuse of water ; to the extent that a pollutant limits other uses of the water, it becomes a waste of the resource, regardless of benefits to the polluter.
A new song from the album, " Eardrum Buzz ", became the band's biggest charting single.
It featured the band's first single ( A-and B-side ), several rare B-side tracks as well as a radio promotion from 1979, a live track and several extended dance mix versions of their biggest MTV hits.
In 2006 Prime Minister Manmohan Singh called the Naxalites " The single biggest internal security challenge ever faced by our country.
* October 12 – WWI: The biggest loss of life in a single day for New Zealand.
One of the biggest problems with measuring on single molecules is to establish reproducible electrical contact with only one molecule and doing so without shortcutting the electrodes.
One of the biggest hindrances for single molecule electronics to be commercially exploited is the lack of techniques to connect a molecular sized circuit to bulk electrodes in a way that gives reproducible results.
When the single was released in late 2002, it became Williams ' biggest international hit, going number one in countries like The Netherlands and Italy, as well as reaching the top ten in almost every single European country.

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The Electric Light Orchestra finished 1979 as the biggest selling act in the United Kingdom.
Despite a brief delay caused by a mechanical problem early in the first act, the performance was an unqualified success, and the play went on to become one of the year's biggest West End successes.
As The KLF, Bill Drummond and Jimmy Cauty were the biggest selling singles act in the world for 1991.
* October 31 – George Clinton and Parliament Funkadelic begin " The P-Funk / Rubber Band Earth Tour " in Houston, a national live series highlighting one of the biggest and revolutionary stage shows in the history of the music industry ( the rock group Kiss would be the other group to do a similar act ), relying on elaborate costumes, special lighting and effects, and extremely large props including " the Mothership ", which would arrive and land on stage, all of what this band is generally known for.
The Blues Brothers, who helped create a resurgence of popularity for soul, R & B, and blues in the 1980s, were influenced by Sam & Dave-their biggest hit was a cover of " Soul Man ", and their act and stage show had many similarities to the duo.
Divine and his stage act proved particularly popular amongst gay audiences, and he appeared at some of the world's biggest gay clubs, such as Heaven in London.
The biggest single act of destruction occurred in Jaffa on 16 June 1936, when large gelignite charges were used to cut long pathways through the old city, destroying 220 – 240 buildings and rendering up to 6, 000 Arabs homeless.
In a London Review of Books review of the same book by Jenny Diski, Diski called the Homes for Votes scandal Porter's " biggest, stupidest and most cynical act of corruption ".
It was the latter of those influences that would leave the biggest impact on DuBrow and act as a compass in his musical career.
Performing at the festival is one of the biggest opportunities for undiscovered talent to showcase their act in front of industry professionals.
Eminem is considered the biggest hip-hop act of the decade as well as the best-selling overall music artist.
On August 1, 2005, Green Day became the biggest former Lookout act to rescind their masters from the label, forcing Lookout to lay off its staff and halt new releases for the remainder of the year.
By 1971, they had not only become the biggest act on the island, they were also ( thanks to signing a recording contract with Chris Blackwell's Island Records ) international stars.
While LaRosa was unable to sustain his early successes, later Cadence artists included Andy Williams and the label's biggest act of all, The Everly Brothers whose hits such as " Bye Bye Love " and " Wake Up Little Susie " were produced by Bleyer in Nashville with country studio musicians led by Chet Atkins.
Morley is credited with steering the marketing and promotion of the phenomenal early success of ZTT's biggest act, Frankie Goes to Hollywood.
During the 1980s, Sire achieved mainstream status after having launched the recording careers of Madonna ( its biggest act ), Ice-T, Depeche Mode, Echo & the Bunnymen, The Pretenders and The Cure in North America.
Between 1995 and 2000, OMC is estimated to have sold between three and four million records worldwide, and " How Bizarre " is the biggest selling record ever to be released by an act originating from and recorded in New Zealand.
The label's most successful act was Funkadelic and its biggest hit was " The Americans " recorded by local news reporter Byron MacGregor in 1974.
The band overstepped Oxeía and played as an opening act for Liquido and Dog Eat Dog at the biggest Slovenian festival, Rock Otočec, and at the Ljubljana open-air theatre Križanke for the Leningrad Cowboys.
They are a 4 piece rap act from Los Angeles, California and scored a 6 week run at the top with this single, becoming the biggest selling single of the year ( however, failing to sell a million copies, becoming the first year to not have a million selling single since 1993 ) and also the longest stay at the top of the UK charts since Cher's " Believe " in 1998.
From being an underground act with a small but faithful following, the band in the late nineties emerged as one of the biggest acts in the Faroe Islands.
Profile's biggest act was Run-D. M. C., which was introduced to Robbins when manager Russell Simmons sent him a demo cassette of It's like That ( Run – D. M. C.
The 1980s also saw the birth of Rock band Aslan from Finglas & Ballymun in North Dublin, the 3rd biggest selling Irish act in Ireland.
was rivalling Duran Duran and Culture Club as Britain's biggest pop act.

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