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record and past
On March 30, 2006, as a response to the controversy of the use of performance-enhancing drugs and the anticipated career home run record to be set by Barry Bonds, Selig asked former senator George Mitchell to lead an independent investigation into the use of steroids in baseball's recent past.
No large earthquake has occurred on the Hayward Fault near Berkeley in historic times ( except possibly in 1836 ), but seismologists warn about the geologic record of large temblors several times in the deeper past, and their current assessment is that a quake of 6. 5 or greater is imminent, sometime within the next 30 years.
The findings at Anyang include the earliest written record of Chinese past so far discovered: inscriptions of divination records in ancient Chinese writing on the bones or shells of animals – the so-called " oracle bones ", dating from around 1200 BC.
Details of the modern climate record are known through the taking of measurements from such weather instruments as thermometers, barometers, and anemometers during the past few centuries.
Three months past his 41st birthday, Cy Young was the oldest pitcher to record a no-hitter, a record which would stand 82 years until 43-year-old Nolan Ryan surpassed the feat.
The auditor then asks the preclear to locate an exact record of something that happened to the preclear in his past: " Locate an incident that you feel you can comfortably face.
Deforestation causes extinction, changes to climatic conditions, desertification, and displacement of populations as observed by current conditions and in the past through the fossil record.
" It said that the U. S. military's track record overcoming past racial and gender discrimination demonstrated its ability to integrate groups previously excluded.
Some record achievements ( e. g., past politicians note the years of their terms of office ).
In 185 battles that France had fought over the past 800 years, their armies had won 132 times, lost 43 times and drawn only 10, giving the French military the best record of any country in Europe ".
*" The discrepancies between the bold claims now being made by Begin and his party and their record of past performance in Palestine bear the imprint of no ordinary political party.
The OEDs official policy is to attempt to record a word's most-known usages and variants in all varieties of English past and present, worldwide.
These interviews are conducted with people who participated in or observed past events and whose memories and perceptions of these are to be preserved as an aural record for future generations.
Primitive societies have long relied on oral tradition to preserve a record of the past in the absence of written histories.
Palaeontology lies on the boundary between biology and geology since palaeontology focuses on the record of past life but its main source of evidence is fossils, which are found in rocks.
A summary of such a view might be that, the present is an encounter " in God " with new possibilities ( where " God " is sometimes not understood " theistically ", in the sense of a " person "), and the past is thus a record or remembrance " by God " of the experiences of existent beings.
The periodization of origins is an attempt to classify time periods in the distant past for which there is no direct record.
* A time setting in the future, in alternative timelines, or in a historical past that contradicts known facts of history or the archaeological record.
Rudolf Wolf studied the historical record in an attempt to establish a database on past cyclic variations.
On 27 April 2007, in advance of the 4 November 2007 presidential election, and in reaction to the politics of Abdullah Gül, who has a past record of involvement in Islamist political movements and banned Islamist parties such as the Welfare Party, the army issued a statement of its interests.
The Fertile Crescent has an impressive record of past human activity.
Decomposition and decay of diatoms leads to organic and inorganic ( in the form of silicates ) sediment, the inorganic component of which can lead to a method of analyzing past marine environments by corings of ocean floors or bay muds, since the inorganic matter is embedded in deposition of clays and silts and forms a permanent geological record of such marine strata.
Borehole temperature profiles, ice cores, floral and faunal records, glacial and periglacial processes, stable isotope and other sediment analyses, and sea level records serve to provide a climate record that spans the geologic past.

record and earnings
In September, the studio released another Al Jolson part-talking picture, The Singing Fool, which more than doubled The Jazz Singers earnings record for a Warners movie.
Technicians say that EMH ignores the way markets work, in that many investors base their expectations on past earnings or track record, for example.
Her career prize-money earnings totalled US $ 21, 895, 277 ( a record until Lindsay Davenport surpassed this amount in January 2008 ).
ODAR also adjudicates disputes relating to retirement claims and has jurisdiction when the paternity of a claimant or the validity of a marriage is at issue when a claim is filed for benefits under the earnings record of a spouse or parent.
Albatross set the single-season harness horse earnings record of $ 558, 009 in 1971.
Most of his earnings came from " overnight " invitational races and " late closer " events that carried only a fraction of the dollar amounts of the traditional two-and three-year-old stakes events that make up the vast majority of the earnings of virtually every other record money-winning racehorse.
His final race record stood at 83 starts, 39 wins, 15 seconds, and 9 thirds with $ 6, 497, 947 in earnings.
During his career Arcaro rode in 24, 092 races and won 4, 779, with record setting earnings of $ 30, 039, 543.
With $ 244, 490 in official PGA Tour earnings, Nicklaus established a new single season money record during the year.
On April 5, 2008, a report was released saying that the Roughriders set a new record for earnings in a single season.
Class 3 contributions are voluntary NICs paid by people wishing to fill a gap in their contributions record which has arisen either by not working or by their earnings being too low.
Invisible trade would record international buying and selling of services, and sometimes would be grouped with transfer and factor income as invisible earnings.
In 1978, both Loblaw and George Weston Limited returned to profitability and in 1980 Weston ’ s showed record earnings of $ 76 million on sales of $ 6 billion.
Over the next 15 years, Lawrence's aggressive expansion into new markets-combined with ideas unorthodox for the airline industry-led Braniff to record industry financial and operating performance, expanding its earnings tenfold despite typical passenger load factors of only about 50 percent.
As Ohio's Treasurer, Withrow instituted new programs, achieved record earnings, and was nationally recognized for her efficient management.
Affirmed then went to Hollywood Park, where he won the Californian Stakes, carrying 132 pounds, he then won the Hollywood Gold Cup in a three horse finish, from Sirlad and Text, setting an all time earnings record and running the 1¼ miles in a fast 1: 58 2 / 5.
His total career record now stood at 27 victories and two seconds in 29 starts and earnings of $ 865, 150.
* In addition, companies are analyzed for their record of earnings over a relatively long period of time and future potential.
It breaks the record for highest opening-weekend earnings in the United States for a " documentary ," earning US $ 23. 9 million.
As a six-year-old, Equipoise was kept in training with the aim of beating Sun Beau's earnings record.
He was named Harness Tracks of America's Driver of the Year in 1984, a year when he set a yearly earnings record of over $ 9 million.
That level of earnings was a record that remained unbroken for nineteen years, which is the longest time for having held the record.

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