The first reason is time: It took about a decade to develop the B-2.
So this is the first reason that many ebooks are filled with mistakes and typos.
Mr. QUAMMEN: Well, as far as I'm concerned, the first reason is that it helps us understand cancer better.
The first reason is that modern warships are much more capable than their predecessors, and they have price-tags to match.
In Finklestein's view, the first reason Israel launched Operation Cast Lead was because Hamas had begun expressing interest in peace.
The first reason for worry, oddly, is that Germany's legion of small and medium-sized firms entered this downturn with balance-sheets stuffed with cash.
The first reason is that the military situation hardly merits panic.
"The first reason I bought my car, was because, 10 years from now, I didn't want to be embarrassed, " said Prius owner George Sulluck, a software programmer.
The first reason was that the lead-acid battery packs used in the EV-1 weighed 1600 lb. and were both too heavy and not powerful enough for widespread use.
The first reason is because that is simply what companies are used to doing: indeed, most firms I know obsessively monitor their competitors, so if such a competitor comes up with a new discovery, they will notice.
The first reason is that households need only so many cars, fridges or microwaves, so as they become richer they tend to spend a bigger chunk of their income on services, such as holidays, health and education, rather than on goods.
Conversations with advisers to several potential candidates suggest that the first reason for the slow ramp-up is a basic one: The coming campaign isn't for an open seat in the White House, but rather will be a race against an incumbent president.
This would have been the very first good reason for the midfielder to avoid celebrating his goal in the Super League in the style he did -- but unfortunately for him, there were several more.
"The First Amendment is first for a reason, " said Michael Steel, a spokesman for House Speaker John Boehner.
Who will get leveraged beyond reason first?
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At first sight, the reason why long working hours have started to fall appears straightforward.
First off, the reason Assange holed-up in an embassy was to avoid extradition to Sweden where authorities want to arrest him for allegedly raping one woman and sexually molesting another.
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The Bar Council's former chairman Matthias Kelly QC said the law changes could "lead to prosecutions routinely seeking a second bite of the cherry, if a case flopped first time for good reason".
At first I tried to reason with CWO4 Averhart by telling him that I had been a model detainee and by asking him to just tell me what he wanted me to do and that I would do it.
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The reason the first round was played in court was because a judge was needed to answer an all-important legal question: if a team forfeits a game under its own standards, rather than those of the Ohio High School Athletic Association, how does it affect the computerized calculations for who gets into the playoffs?
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"The reason we support the contempt resolution is the same reason we first called for Attorney General Holder's resignation more than a year ago: the Department's obstruction of congressional oversight of a program that costs lives in support of an anti-gun agenda, " said a letter to Issa last week from NRA Executive Director Chris Cox.
Indeed, the reason that the first inquiry rejected the project was because of police fears about public safety.
First, consider the main reason why general price inflation retards economic growth: it can lead to a misallocation of resources.
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Now there are signs that the problems in the euro zone may not be as bad as first suspected, suggesting another reason to buy European stocks.
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