Meanwhile, Australia's Anna Meares set a world record to win the women's 500m time trial in a race she might well have missed had it not been for an injury to her older sister.
He set a qualifying record to win the pole Friday and led 69 of the first 73 laps before getting passed by brother Kyle.
The No. 4 seed Andy Murray battled through a second set blip to record a 6-1 7-5 6-0 victory over Japan's Tatsuma Ito.
Australia were set a world record 546 to win in their four innings after England declared on 373-9 in their second innings but gave themselves hope after reaching 80-0 without loss at stumps on day three.
Britain's Murray twice trailed by a break of serve in the opening set but recovered to record a 7-6 (7-4) 6-4 win.
The 1, 150 visitors on World Heritage Day set a new daily record for attendance to the garden, a figure which included a large number of first time visitors.
Meanwhile, a team of Yamaha motorcycle designers will attempt to set a world record of their own when they fly their pedal-powered airplane over 75 miles of the Pacific Ocean.
In an effort to set the record straight, Anderson created a measure to adjust for the total number of graduates at each school during the period surveyed.
This symbolic system of notation also has shown scholars how writing first developed to provide a permanent record of information rather than as a way to set down spoken language.
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Goldman's earnings set an alltime high for investment banks in 2005--then grew 76% last year to set a new record.
"I'm just trying to set the record and trying to give you a chance to respond, which is fair, " Russert had responded.
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If temperatures continue to hit 100 degrees or more by Saturday, Dallas will have set a record -- becoming the first city to mark 43 consecutive days of temperatures above 100 degrees.
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Her quest to set a Guinness-sanctioned record would generate further assignments as she progressed from continent to continent.
Split by linguistic differences between a Flemish-speaking north and a French-speaking south, voters in Belgium set a world record this year, by being unable to agree on a formal government since holding elections last June.
Chick-fil-A said it set a sales record Wednesday but declined to release the numbers.
Pujols will stay in St Louis, and the Cardinals will enable Albert to set a record for highest annual average salary.
Homeland also won outstanding drama, meaning that Mad Men failed to set a record by winning its fifth best drama award.
The beleaguered company gets a chance to set the record straight, however, when it reports first quarter earnings on Tuesday morning.
The people behind the the longest tapestry in the world now have their sights set on a global project to record the Scottish Diaspora.
The team at Mozilla, the group behind the free Firefox Web browser, is gunning to set a record for most downloads in a 24-hour period.
Manchester United, owned by the American Glazer family, look set to win a record 20th league title this season, holding an unassailable 15-point lead over their fierce rivals Manchester City.
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Although his 200-meters winning time set a new world record that was to stand for 11 years Smith never ran for the U.S. again, and was eventually forced to give up athletics and turn to American football instead.
Not too shabby for a team that went 0-29 in 2008 to set the NCAA record for futility in a season.
Not too shabby for a team that went 0-29 in 2008 to set the NCAA record for losses in a season.
They used a system of cameras to record the movement patterns of a set of able-bodied volunteers who were walking on a treadmill, and then correlated the result with the electrical signals detected simultaneously at their scalps.
Well, the BrewDog punks just went over the top again, to set a new record.
Anita Wlodarczyk of Poland set a world record of 77.96m to become women's hammer champion.
And an attempt will be made to set a world record for the largest ever sit-down lunch.
The 24-year-old first wants to set a 100m record of 9.4 seconds - a time he says will "probably never be beaten".
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