In fact, it's terribly ironic that Bonds and Clemens, who share so very little, will forever be joined in infamy.

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And at worst, the 2011-12 NBA season could join the 2004-05 NHL season in infamy as the only 2 North American sports seasons completed erased by a work stoppage.

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The most iconic example is the Coca-Cola Company's attempt to reformulate the world's most popular soft drink on April 23, 1985 - "a day that will live in marketing infamy", according to the company's website.

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Even if it does, that should not obscure the fact that Mr bin Laden's infamy in the West is losing its power to inspire his own people.

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One of the reasons for Mexico City's infamy was its diligence in recording its own failings: the government keeps hourly readings of eight pollutants across 34 weather stations, some going back to 1986.

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Forty years ago, Dr Beeching, then chairman of the railways, axed some of them, and the infamy of his name lives on in the shires to this day.

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