Paul Broadhurst
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Paul Broadhurst (b. 14 Aug 1965) is an English golfer.
Broadhurst was the leading amateur at the 1988 Open Championship. He joined the PGA European Tour in 1989, picked up his first win at the Credit Lyonnais Cannes Open that year, and was the Rookie of the Year. Further European Tour wins followed in 1991, 1993 and 1995. His only appearance in the Ryder Cup to date was in 1991.
Broadhurst's highest finish on the order of merit is ninth in 1996. He suffered a serious injury to his right hand during the second round of the 2000 Dubai Desert Classic, and was unable to compete for the remainder of that season. He also struggled in 2001 and 2002, but improved to 89th of the order of merit in 2003, thus regaining full exempt status. In 2005, he picked up his fifth European Tour win, and his first for a decade, at the Estoril Open de Portugal Caixa Geral de Depositos.
European tour wins
- 1989 Credit Lyonnais Cannes Open
- 1991 European Pro-Celebrity
- 1993 Benson and Hedges International Open
- 1995 Peugeot Open de France
- 2005 Estoril Open de Portugal Caixa Geral de Depositos
Professional team appearances
- Ryder Cup: 1991
- World Cup: 1995, 1997
- Alfred Dunhill Cup: 1991
- Four Tours World Championship: 1991 (winner)
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By Tim Ahmann WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. Federal Reserve officials gathered on Tuesday for their final policy meeting of the year and were widely expected to nudge interest rates up to stay ahead of inflation amid a steady economic expansion. The central bank's policy-setting Federal Open Market Committee began meeting at about 9 a.m., a Fed official said. The panel is expected to announce its decision on rates at around 2:15 p.m. Economists are united in the view that the central bank will push benchmark overnight rates higher by a quarter of a percentage point to 2.25 percent, part of an effort to lift them to more normal levels after slicing them to 45-year lows. "It's not a robust expansion, but on the other hand it is an expansion and we are growing fast enough to see improvements in the job market," said David Berson, chief economist at mortgage finance giant Fannie Mae (FNM.N: Quote , Profile , Research ) . The U.S. economy grew at a respectable 3.7 percent annual rate in the third quarter and job growth has averaged 178,000 over the last three months -- not spectacular but fast enough, analysts say, to whittle away at the 5.4 percent unemployment rate posted in November. Economists say that as the jobless rate moves lower, the Fed will become more watchful on the inflation front. CONTINUE 'MEASURED' CAMPAIGN But for now, most analysts think officials will be content to stick with what they have described as a "measured" campaign to move interest rates up. Since embarking on that campaign in June, the Fed has moved in quarter-point steps at each of its last four rate meetings. And economists say a rate hike at the Fed's final gathering of the year on Tuesday won't be the last. Futures markets are betting heavily that policymakers will bump the benchmark federal funds rate up another notch when they next meet in early February. But views are split on whether the Fed will pause to assess the impact of its actions at its subsequent meeting in March. The median forecast in a survey from the Bond Market Association released on Monday was for a fed funds rate of 2.5 percent by March, 3.0 percent by mid-year and 3.5 percent by the end of 2005. Continued ... Source: reuters.comSource: mortgage
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Ricardo Lopez
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Ricardo Lopez (born July 25, 1966) is a Mexican boxer who made history in the Strawweight and Jr. Flyweight divisions. His nickname is Finito.
Lopez, a lover of Salsa music, had an amateur record of 37-1, after which he jumped to the professional ranks. His professional debut came January 18 of 1985 in Cuernavaca, Mexico with a three round knockout over Rogelio Hernandez. This was the start of a streak of knockout wins that reached seven. Then, in 1986, he was extended to the ten round distance in Mexico City by Herminio Ramirez, but he still won that fight by a unanimous decision. In a rematch between Lopez and Ramirez, Lopez once again won on points.
In 1987 and 1988, Lopez won six more bouts, and in 1989, he won six before challenging for a minor, non world title: The WBC continental America's Strawweight title. He won that belt by knocking out Rey Hernandez in five rounds in Mexico City during his final bout of the 1980s. Lopez was then ranked number 1 among the world Strawweight challengers by the WBC.
Lopez started the decade of the 1990s, by beating Jorge Rivera by a knockout in eight at Texas to retain his regional belt, and then he followed with a ten round decision over Francisco Montiel. After the win versus Montiel, his world championship bout versus WBC world Strawweight champion Hideyuki Ohashi was signed, and in October of 1990, Ricardo travelled to Japan, where he became world champion by knocking Ohashi out in five rounds.
Next came a string of 22 defenses in a row, which is a record for the Strawweight division, and at the time, the third longest string of defenses in the history of boxing, after Joe Louis' 25 and Dariusz Michalczewski's 23. Lopez's string was stopped only because he struggled to make the 105-pound limit late in his career, and finally moved up to light flyweight (108 pounds) for his final three fights. Among the boxers he defeated were former world champion Kyun Yung Lee, future world champions Samart Sorjaturong and Kermin Guardia, and fringe contenders Ala Villamor, Andy Tabanas and Manny Melchor. On the night of August 23, he unified his WBC belt with the WBO championship at the Madison Square Garden by knocking out Puerto Rico's Alex Nene Sanchez in five rounds in front of a Pay Per View audience. He was promptly stripped of the WBO belt when it became public knowledge that he presented the belt to his father.
On March 7 of 1998, he suffered the only blemish in his professional record when he attempted to unify his WBC belt with the WBA championship against Nicaragua's Rosendo Alvarez in front of another Pay Per View audience at Mexico City. Lopez was dropped in round one, but he got up and kept fighting. In round five, there was a clash of heads, and the fight had to be stopped in round seven because of the cut on Lopez's forehead. The fight went to the judges' scorecards, and they had the bout scored a draw. There was an immediate rematch, and the second time around, Lopez was able to edge out a split decision win at Las Vegas.
After renouncing his world strawweight titles, Lopez went up in weight, and in 1999, he received a shot at the IBF world Jr. Flyweight champion Will Grigsby, and Lopez became world Jr. Flyweight champion, beating Grigsby by a decision in 12.
He fought just two more times after defeating Grigsby. The first was against former world champion Ratanol Vorapin on December 2 of 2000, knocking him out in 3 rounds to retain his belt as part of the Félix Trinidad-Fernando Vargas fight undercard. In his last fight, on September 29, 2001, he scored an eighth-round knockout of Zolani Pethelo. A layoff of 15 months followed.
On Sunday, November 23 of 2002, Ricardo called all major news outlets in Mexico to announce his retirement from boxing. Among the people who attended the conference were Julio Cesar Chavez and Marco Antonio Barrera. He retired with a record of 50 wins, 0 losses and 1 draw, joining Rocky Marciano as the only world boxing champions ever to retire undefeated.
Lopez, who is an avid autograph signer, once intended to record a salsa CD, and had many proposals to star in telenovelas on Televisa.
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