For over 10 years, Roger Black performed at the highest level in the world of athletics.
And having represented his country at the highest level in the World Cup finals, he rues the fact he has not played more often on the highest stage of club football.
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In a review of global discarding, the UN noted that the north-east Atlantic had the highest discard level in the world, estimated at 1.3 million tonnes - the majority attributed to the EU. The Commission estimates that 23% of all fish caught by EU vessels are discarded.
The trade deficit has helped the U.S. maintain the highest level of foreign direct investment in the world by far.
"We have to remember that the UK has the highest level of infection of E. coli 0157 in the world, " he added.
He also predicted that as a percentage of GDP, primary current expenditure (excluding interest payments and capital spending), which in 2008 reached its highest level since the second world war, would rise by a further three percentage points in 2009.
It was the highest level since the collapse of the Soviet Union and the highest in the world together with Saudi Arabia.
Located in one of the driest regions on earth at an altitude at which the atmosphere is 50 percent thinner than at sea level, ALMA is the highest construction project in the world and arguably the most challenging.
Full scholarships "UNESCO-ANII Environmental Engineering Master's Program with emphasis on Sanitary Engineering" will allow access to professional training of the highest quality and world level, benefiting from existing capabilities in the extended family of the UNESCO, which centers like UNESCO-IHE - the so-called Category I because of their institutional bond with UNESCO- are central actors.
Still, when the world's best compete at the highest level in any sport, risks remain.
The creative midfielder will have to demonstrate that he can still play at the highest level given his last appearance for the national side was under Glenn Hoddle in a World Cup qualifier in Moldova in 1996 - a game in which he scored.
"Jens is someone at the very highest level who knows the difference in standard between mediocrity and the absolute top in the world, " says Maes.
Cameroon's progress as a state has been hampered by a level of corruption that is among the highest in the world.
The World Health Organization in June declared a Level 6 worldwide pandemic, the organization's highest classification.
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And when you factor in the taxes at both the personal and business level, these charts show that France already has the highest tax on dividends in the developed world and the third-highest tax on capital.
The country has reported its first trade deficit in four years, and consumer demand is sliding, while unemployment is at its highest level since the Second World War.
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