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biggest and single
Now all he had to do was finish in even par to collect the trophy and the biggest single paycheck in golf.
The biggest single act would doubtless be staged by Frankie himself: his Inaugural wardrobe had been designed by Hollywood Couturier Don Loper, who regularly makes up ladies' ensembles.
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.

biggest and loss
The biggest loss, of course, was the individual's lessened desire and ability to give his services to the growth of his company and our economy.
Ironically, this led to the foundation of United Artists by Douglas Fairbanks, D. W. Griffith, Pickford, and Chaplin, and to the loss of First National's biggest stars.
For instance, in India, the biggest threat seems to be habitat loss followed by poaching, while in China, the biggest threat seems to be hunting and poaching.
The country's economy suffered in the aftermath of the 1973 global energy crisis, the loss of New Zealand's biggest export market upon Britain's entry to the European Economic Community, and rampant inflation.
During one of these bombings, the beautiful Eremitani church, with Mantegna frescoes, was destroyed ( considered by some art historians to be Italy's biggest wartime cultural loss ).
NR's biggest error, to date, is the loss of several minutes of the Dancing with the Stars results show live telecast on March 27, 2007 to 104 affiliates.
In the last game of the season, Manchester City suffered an 8 – 1 loss to Middlesbrough, the biggest defeat of Eriksson's career.
In the round 24 match, Geelong thumped the Magpies by a record margin of 96 points, which was also Collingwood's biggest ever loss at the MCG.
The film recorded a loss of $ 740, 000, making it one of the biggest financial disasters in RKO's history.
Real's biggest loss at home in the Champions League came at the hands of Bayern on 29 February 2000 ( 2 – 4 ).
The biggest single loss of life was the first Markale marketplace massacre on 5 February 1994, in which 68 civilians were killed and 200 were wounded.
Habitat loss is the grebe's biggest threat.
Motherwell's biggest win was a 12 – 1 victory over Dundee United in 1954, with the clubs heaviest defeat being the 8 – 0 loss to Aberdeen in 1979.
" The biggest part of my life was the acquiring and the loss of a son.
The defense of the common man led to antiparliamentatism ( Poujade called the Chamber of Deputies " the biggest brothel in Paris " and the deputies a " pile of rubbish " and " pederasts ") a strong anti-intellectualism ( Poujade denounced the graduates from École Polytechnique as the main culprits for the woes of 1950s France and boasted that he had no book learning ), xenophobia, and antisemitism especially aimed against Pierre Mendès-France ( claiming " Mendès is French only as the word added to his name "), who was perceived as responsible for the loss of Indochina.
The official Fire website stated there were several reasons, the biggest being the loss of developers, followed by the fact that most components libraries used by Fire are no longer in active development.
Isabela City residents mourned the loss of the slain Mayor in what probably is the biggest funeral procession ever seen in Basilan.
In 2004 Crown Wallcoverings, previously one of the biggest businesses in the town, closed with the loss of more than 200 jobs.
Ironically, according to Parker's Archive of American Television interview, Ford had originally wanted to cast Parker in Hunter's role in The Searchers but Disney refused to loan him out and Parker didn't hear about until years later ; Parker referred to his loss of that part to Jeffrey Hunter as his single biggest career setback.
The biggest loss was goaltender Bernie Parent, a superstar in the making, who was offered a WHA contract with financial terms far beyond what Ballard was prepared to match.
On 9 December 2005, it was announced that Bennett had resigned as Australia's coach, after the Kangaroos lost an international series for the first time in 27 years, and equalled their biggest loss in 98 years, going down 24-0 to New Zealand in the final of the 2005 Tri-nations series.
Their biggest single loss of life came at Clones in February 1922, when a patrol, changing trains in Southern territory, refused to surrender to the local IRA garrison and took four dead and eight wounded in a firefight.
The team's biggest ever win was a 8 – 0 defeat of East Preston in September 2009, and the heaviest defeat was a 7 – 1 loss to Poole Town in April 1984.

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