During the 1910's and 20's in the United States, when "Perfect Baby" contests were started and "Fitter Families" contests emerged at state fairs in the "human stock" sections, eugenics booths were also set up on fairgrounds with lights that flashed every few seconds to designate another newborn "with bad heredity".
Buchholz looked hard to beat through four innings, but he gave up a leadoff single in the fifth to designated hitter Jorge Posada, who was dragging a.160 batting average.
Denmark recently became the first country to designate breast cancer as an occupational disease eligible for receiving compensation (Commentary, 2009).
Link yourself to the first item to designate the start of the list.
Also on Tuesday, the commission voted for a third time to designate the Jamaica Savings Bank building, an 1898 Hough & Duell Beaux-Artstructurere at 161-02 Jamaina Avenue, in Jamaica, as a landmark.
In the 1980s, for instance, Apple was among the first major corporations to designate overseas distributors as "commissionaires," rather than retailers, said Michael Rashkin, Apple's first director of tax policy, who helped set up the system before leaving in 1999.
Last year, Minneapolis and Seattle became the first major U.S. cities to designate the second Monday of October as Indigenous Peoples' Day.
Despite playing with painful plantar fasciitis, a condition that relegated the first baseman to designated hitter for 65 of his 99 starts, Pujols is hitting.258 with 17 home runs and 64 runs batted in.
Torre also inserted a couple of contact hitters into the lineup, Luis Sojo at third base and Jose Vizcaino at second, and shifted Knoblauch from second base to designated hitter.
The new zones are the first to be designated by the legislative leaders and the governor.
