In a single day last week, nearly 40 people reached the top of the world a record.
On a single day last summer, Greg Moffitt, 47, of Houston, sent out more than 100 applications via MyJobHunter.
But Vumbacco, impatient, bought three in a single day last December.
Then there is Montvale Technologies, which the SEC says had its shares rise by 75 percent on increased volume of 500% in a single day last December even though the company announced its own dissolution months earlier.
"Butterfly in the sky, " she begins, as though not a single day had passed in the last two and a half decades that she didn't wake up singing that line.
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Fight For This Love sold more copies on its first day than Alexandra Burke's single Bad Boys - the current UK number one - did on its first day last week.
Samsung recently promised to roll out smartphones this year that can last all day with regular use on a single charge by bulking up the batteries themselves and reworking how phones seek out wireless signals.
It was the fourth time since last summer that seven Americans have been killed on a single day in the war.
The last time American troops suffered so many casualties in a single day was July 13, 2008, when Afghan militants attempted to overrun a base in the village of Wanat, also in eastern Afghanistan.
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In One Day at Fenway, Kettmann uses a single Saturday afternoon game from last summer to illustrate the intensity of the Yankees-Sox rivalry.
When gun purchases hit a new single-day record with almost 159, 000 background checks on Black Friday last month, the National Shooting Sports Foundation, a pro-gun lobbying group headquartered in Newtown, Connecticut, a few miles from Sandy Hook Elementary School, marked the milestone with a celebratory blog post.
The uncertainty has had an impact: Last week, the Cairo stock market plunged by 3% in a single day.
It crystallized for me on June 22nd of last year, when Craigslist had 67 listings for developer jobs posted in a single day.
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Right now, the United States has the upper hand in this game of security, although it may not seem like that by just looking at the number of casualties every day, simply because the enemy has been obligated to use the last single remaining effective tool in his military toolbox, and that's the suicide bomber.
Just last week in Baghdad a wave of bombings and kidnappings killed more than 200 people in a single day.
"With the economy the way that it is, I look around and I see my peers losing their jobs or scared for their jobs and it's really made me reflect on my last two years and how much I've enjoyed the ability to make an impact every single day, " she said.
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In the last Parliament it was quite usual to see heavily-amended legislation hammered through the Commons in a single day's debate on "remaining stages" - report and third reading - with the result that scores of important changes were voted through unscrutinised.
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