Admittedly, there's a history--in the U.S., no less--of nurtured industries seeming to pay long-run dividends.
Sale is only the fifth player in major-league history to be listed at 6-foot-6 or taller and 180 pounds or fewer, according to Baseball-Reference.com.
The Congolese-league winners have created history by becoming the first team to retain African-club football's top honor twice, having previously won back-to-back crowns in 1967-68.
The factory offers a walk through car-manufacturing history, much of which Toyota has written, and whose successful methods the world's automakers--and other manufacturers--have rushed to adopt.
In the 50-year history of the nuclear debate, this argument -- a test ban in the name of nonproliferation -- is quite possibly the most whimsical.
But history suggests that if the Dow breaks below 10K--and stays there for a close or two--the U.S. equity markets might be in for some serious, long-term, sideways action.
But we know from our history -- the history of this great country -- that change is hard, and it requires a level of patience and tenacity -- do you hear me, young people?
Now Ambrose, who will be remembered as one half of one of the deadliest pairings in cricket history - with either new ball or old - sunk to his knees in front of his brother-in-arms.
The 11 rooms in the original buildings have a history-steeped charm, but I was more taken with the four Maya cottages, which have mosquito-netted swinging beds under palapa roofs, open-air bathrooms, and gracefully simple decor.
The Old Bailey was told Barrett had a history of mental health problems - he had stabbed three outpatients before - and was admitted to Springfield Hospital in Tooting, south-west London, as a voluntary patient.
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Now, I think the history of anti-poverty efforts is, is that the most important anti-poverty effort is growing the economy and making sure there are enough jobs out there -- single most important thing we can do.
Wales have a history of sacking coaches in the build-ups to World Cups and - although criticism of Gatland has grown over the past two seasons - pundits have been generally positive in their treatment of the Kiwi.
In order to honor the longest-serving and oldest senator in history, whom Byrd had just replaced, a resolution was offered that created a new position -- president pro tempore emeritus -- for 98 year-old Strom Thurmond, R-South Carolina.
Take swimming's silver medalist Dara Torres, whose much-covered personal history--a 41-year-old mother competing against women half her age in her fifth Olympic Games--makes her both a remarkable and marketable fan favorite, with or without a gold medal dangling from her neck.
The astronomy community has a long history of descriptive yet fairly unimaginative names - including the VLA itself, the Very Large Telescope in Chile, and the yet-to-be-built European Extremely Large Telescope (the design for which was chosen over the alternative Overwhelmingly Large Telescope).
But in 2007, with no formal training, Pic became the only female chef in France (and only the fourth woman in history) to earn the culinary world's top honor -- a three-Michelin-star rating -- for her family's restaurant, La Maison Pic, in the Rhone-Alpes town of Valence.
They can look to Jennifer Grieves, who made history by becoming the first woman Marine One aircraft commander, and by commanding the first-ever flight with an all-female crew -- I remember this -- proudly carrying my husband from the White House to Andrews Air Force Base back in July.
The Times, which has been regarded as the U.K.'s newspaper of record for most of its 221-year history, is published by Times Newspapers Limited, a subsidiary of News International, itself wholly-owned by billionaire Rupert Murdoch's News Corp. (nyse: NWS - news - people ).
History is also against Dustin Johnson -- no-one has ever won a U.S. Open after winning the week before -- but then again he's a man rested (after injury), on form after his Memphis triumph and with the length to leave himself more lofted clubs to those slick, well-guarded putting surfaces.
This deal has a long history as News Corp. (nyse: NWS - news - people ) had been negotiating with Hughes (nyse: GMH - news - people ), owner of DirectTV , the top satellite TV provider, for a year before EchoStar came in to grab the prize--if it is a prize.
Buzakhar said Tamazight's "deep-rooted" history as a native language -- which significantly predated Arabic's arrival in North Africa -- meant that regarding it as anything less than an official language was illogical.
Religion comes from the period of human pre-history where nobody - not even the mighty Democritus who concluded that all matter was made from atoms - had the smallest idea what was going on.
The Jif-Crisco acquisition is the biggest event in the history of the company, founded as an apple-butter maker by Tim and Richard's great-grandfather, Jerome Monroe Smucker, in 1897.
It achieves exactly -- randomly, the Republicans decided that for the first time in history, we had to link -- we had to do dollar-for-dollar reductions in spending to match the increase in the debt ceiling.
Many have impacted the Earth over its 4.5 billion-year history --as they have hit the moon, Mars and other planets -- leaving craters behind.
Mr Sullivan cleverly uses the rat as a way of burrowing into New York's hidden history and forgotten men, such as Kit Burns, a rat-pit impresario, who ran the city's most popular entertainment in the mid-1800s until cornered by crusading animal-rights activists.
What Mr Park is likely to tell them is that - given the recent history - nobody wants to board this train, if there is a danger of more bust-ups.
And in previous aspects of American history -- President Reagan in 1985, President George Herbert Walker Bush in 1990, President Clinton in 1997 -- all signed deficit reduction deals that were contingent upon or in the context of raising the debt ceiling.
In July, as the worst losers in NFL history started summer training camp, Michael Bidwill--a ball boy for the team 30 years ago who had borne the brunt of bullies--gathered the giant men in white helmets and cardinal red jerseys around him.
Mazembe had already made history by becoming the first African team to reach the final after a 2-0 upset win over Copa Libertadores champions Internacional of Brazil in the semi-finals, the biggest surprise in the 10-year history of the event.
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