But in 2005, on the eve of the 134th version of the oldest championship in golf, the limelight has shifted away from nine-time modern major winner Tiger Woods to a much more ancient creature - the great and unique Golden Bear.
For the first time in modern history a major Internet economy is being shut down.
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Weaver's overall winning percentage of .583 (1, 480-1, 060) ranks fifth all-time among modern managers with over 1, 000 games.
This is the very first time in modern history that we've seen a prolonged worldwide interval of equity arbitrage.
For the first time in modern memory, a whole generation might not prove wealthier than the one that preceded it.
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More Americans have been unemployed for longer than at any time in modern history, fewer Americans participate in the workforce.
According to Stone, modern women spend more time with their children than earlier generations despite working more outside the home.
The six years it took from his death until Pope Benedict XVI beatified him in 2011 was the shortest time in modern history.
Instead, modern societies have proven time and again to be remarkably resilient in the face of shocks of various kinds, both technological and natural.
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Another measure shows that more Americans now identify themselves as Republicans (40%) than as Democrats (35%), again for the first time in modern history.
This meant that the overall level of pension scheme membership has dropped below the 50% mark for the first time since modern records started in 1997.
The essential point is that, for the first time in modern history, the defending powers are virtually as strong, and as ready, as the potential aggressors.
One of his forces' most brutal acts was the gassing of Kurdish villagers in 1988 the first time a modern leader had used chemical weapons against his own people.
This in turn could pave the way for Mr Erdogan to launch his long-promised new democratic constitution, which would properly embrace the Kurds for the first time in modern Turkish history.
This gave birth to the most modern league of the time, which may be why Germany was so good at football, says Thomas Kupfer, who has written a book on football management.
Whereas former generations of nouveaux riches assimilated fairly quickly, marrying native aristocrats and often entering politics, modern ones split their time between countries, acquiring British polish but not sending down deep roots.
Voters should also consider that, even as our nation faces threats of terrorism and remains at war, for the first time in modern presidential history the Republican ticket lacks any national security credentials.
"What I'm saying is that at a time that's as complicated and dangerous as any time in modern history, today, a president of the United States needs to hear other opinions, " Hagel said.
For most of them, the show was meant to be an exhibition displaying the wide range of American modern art of the time, from the realism of the Ashcan School to the experiments of the Stieglitz-circle painters.
This is the first time in modern history that the United States has failed to ratify a major arms control agreement, a development that has unsettled allies in Europe and Asia, while making Washington an easy target of criticism for Moscow and Beijing.
And then I came across a shot of singer Karen O (whose hairdo and bold clothes have often been compared with those of '60s model Peggy Moffitt), wearing a simple striped T-shirt with her angular bob, somehow looking both retro and modern at the same time.
When the Convention for the Protection and Promotion of the Diversity of Cultural Expressions came into force in 2007, for this first time in modern history, the right of states to adopt policies to protect and promote their cultural expressions was affirmed in an international legal instrument.
At the same time, the modern overbite began to appear prominently in upper-class Western European jaws.
It happens all the time in the modern workplace: Someone gets left out of the loop.
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Despite a college degree that included art history, Behnke first pursued a career in modern dance and put in time working on films.
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And that contribution to America by Ireland is a continuing one, one that we have to find and give modern expression to all the time.
More than at any time since the modern republic was founded in 1923, Turkish society is questioning received truths (see article and article).
The various laws and regulations have all changed over time to incorporate modern financial theory, including the idea that investing for income is the inappropriate investment policy.
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The failure to go ahead with the London championships is the first time in the modern sporting era that a major economic power has failed to meet a promise to hold a major sports event.
Hence the broad thrusts of this movie, which is set two thousand years ago and is designed to show that, at a time when other modern civilizations were still mudbound, China was putting the final touches to the process of governing by martial arts.
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