Even if he gets gold in just half of the eight events he has entered, Phelps will hold the record for the most gold medals in Olympic history and could arguably be called the greatest Olympian ever.
Former England batsman Geoff Boycott , who became the first Englishman to score more than 8, 000 Test runs, breaking West Indies all-rounder Sir Garry Sobers' batting record in the process, told BBC Radio 5 Live that Tendulkar will hold the record for years to come.
Although staffing changes of this nature are relatively common after an election year, what remains to be seen is whether the new Enforcement Director and Chairman will continue to be as active as their predecessors, who hold the record for the number of enforcement actions filed in a two year period.
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West Indies hold the Test record for a fourth-innings chase, with their monumental 418 to beat Australia in Antigua in 2003.
And that's true even if everyone knows you're the fastest man in the world, if you're the reigning Olympic champion, if you hold the world record - nothing gets you a free pass to Beijing.
It works much like the video feature in the company's Poke app -- press and hold the red record button, speak your message and it'll appear in-line as part of your chat, represented by a clickable sound wave icon.
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Nor does Alan Greenspan, the Fed chairman, hold on-the-record press briefings to explain what the Fed is up to.
On his website, he keeps track of technology that enables cheating and tales of the unfaithful his site background is a collage of photos including David Duchovny, Jude Law, Eliot Spitzer, Bill Clinton and Jesse Jackson but also notes and celebrates monogamy: like the couple married for 85 years who hold the Guinness world record for longest marriage and science that explains our tendency toward fidelity.
"If the DAX manages to hold decisively above 8160 the previous record high then we may see it squeeze higher towards 8, 265 and potentially 8, 500 in the days and weeks to come, " said Fawad Razaqzada, market strategist at GFT Markets.
After all, you'd come to tell people what's happening, to hold the authorities accountable, to record history in the making.
But then you've got Ricky Ponting steaming up from the back so I don't know how long the Indians will hold that record.
Frank Guerra, a San Antonio, Texas, advertising executive and a member of Bush's advertising team, said he would hold up the president's record against that of the administration he succeeded.
This makes the few known bipedal snakes in the fossil record hugely significant, because they could hold the clues that settle this particular debate.
Together, the moves hold the promise of yanking Iraq back into the global economy in record time.
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And that ultimate record ball will hold the most long term value, just as Aaron's 755th homerun ball outweighs his 715th, the one that broke Babe Ruth's record.
Hollywood and the record labels believe they can hold off the threat from technology, both legitimate and illegitimate, and maintain the value of their products.
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Consistency not only ensures that all events are handled in a manner that is appropriate to their requirements and associated risk, but also establishes a track record that will hold up under the scrutiny of senior managers, regulators, auditors, and Attorneys General.
But just as it looked like United would hold on to record their 19th victory of the season and restore their eight point lead at the top, Dempsey finished from close range after Aaron Lennon's cutback to ensure a share of the spoils.
Most developed countries now hold record levels of sovereign (government) debt, while record annual budget deficits add to the debt.
New York has the same record as Carolina, 15-13-2, but the Hurricanes now hold the eighth spot based on a tiebreaker.
Some fund managers, meanwhile, are shadowing their benchmark indices, hoping to hold on to their jobs amid record volatility in the stock market.
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If the showers hold off, England will seek to extend their record of eight successive T20 victories.
Record inflows mean silver-backed ETF trusts now hold record volumes of metal, both in Europe and the US. Precious-metal dealers from Germany to India to Japan report a surge in demand.
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Mitigating Considerations: It is a matter of public record that the major German banks (who hold somewhere between DM 6-10 billion in uninsured Soviet debt) have with the possible exception of Commerzbank already established loan loss reserves which cover 100 percent of Soviet debt exposure.
When economic recovery takes hold, nationalized banks will gradually be divested -- and the track record of the Asian Crisis countries on privatization is good.
Networks, film companies and other entertainment powerhouses that hold the rights to content, though concerned about a coming shift in how viewers see shows and events, hold more cards than the music industry did when Steve Jobs negotiated with record label executives.
However, if rates do indeed hold near record-low levels, investors in search of yield in the fixed-income market might benefit from taking a look at nontraditional credits as Holtz suggests.
The great challenge is to enable their customers to innovate quickly at the speed of business change, embracing new platforms, without unduly disrupting the systems of record (such as SAP Business Suite) that quite literally hold many organizations together.
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The weight of the lunar module, on top of the command and service module, was the main reason why the Saturn V rockets that shot Apollo astronauts into space needed to be the tallest, heaviest and most powerful ever flown, a record they still hold.
Every winter they hold SuperZampone, a festival where local sausage makers try to break their own world record for the largest zampone ever.
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