In the first quarter the company finally managed to achieve its first increase in display advertising revenues since the spinoff, a thin 4%.
Without Stanton, the Marlins overcame a 3-2 deficit in the 15th to achieve their first two-game winning streak of the season.
The president said he'd been able to achieve the first two simultaneously, with cooperation and support from the nation's labor movement.
He has given General McChrystal the chance to achieve the first, crucial part of his strategy: to regain the initiative in a war that has been slipping inexorably into the enemy's hands.
As second-in-command under GE's Jack Welch in the 1980s, Bossidy played a big part in carrying out Welch's policy of dumping any business in which GE could not achieve either first or second place.
As General Electric's second-in-command under Jack Welch in the 1980s, Bossidy played a big part in carrying out Welch's policy of dumping any business in which GE could not achieve either first or second place.
For instance, Massachusetts is trying to achieve universal coverage first before tackling costs.
At this record payroll, the Dodgers will achieve another franchise first.
The scientist who came up with the original idea for the experiment, Lord Krebs, says it smacks of fitting the facts to the answer you want to achieve in the first place.
But no matter what Dortmund can achieve in the first leg of its Champions League semifinal against Real Madrid, a sense of gloom crept in on Tuesday, the feeling that this European run might be a last throw of the dice.
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It is the first to achieve the accolade of publication in a peer-reviewed scientific journal.
Then there was the landmark 1984 Corvette, the first to achieve more than 1 g in cornering grip.
The match winner is the first to achieve six points, with a single-arrow shoot-off again used in the event of a tie.
How do you achieve this with a first-time CEO?
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Stephens becomes the first U.S. teenager to reach a grand slam semfinal since Serena at the 2001 U.S. Open, and the first to achieve the feat outside of the Williams sisters since Alexandra Stevenson at Wimbledon in 1999.
Based on what has happened through the first 9 months of 2012 Russia should achieve modest natural population growth in 2012, its first natural population growth since 1991.
The AL13SE is the first 10, 000 RPM class model enterprise drive from Toshiba to achieve 900GB capacity and is also the first of Toshiba's 10, 000 RPM drives to employ a dual-stage head positioning actuator that provides additional performance gains, including a 32% increase in sustained transfer rate.
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If the Serb is to provide his perfect send-off for Gencic by winning Roland Garros for the first time - and thus become only the eighth man to achieve the career grand slam - he must first beat Tommy Haas, who is also chasing history.
In 1907, the first helicopter to achieve free flight carrying a man rose six feet (two meters) above the ground at Lisieux, France.
Adventure tourism student Sian Carlin, 18, was seriously injured in the accident but went onto to achieve top grades in her first year of studies.
Ligety, who had won gold in the Super-G, super-combined and giant slalom, was the first man to achieve such a feat since Claude Killy in 1968.
Jeter, the first Yankee to achieve this milestone while wearing the pinstripes, has been the epitome of class, consistency and durability throughout his illustrious 17 year career.
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"I feel that the condition and knowledge that I gained from Korea will definitely help me achieve those times in the first half of next season, " he said.
The discovery of ice is sure to overshadow the many other things Lunar Prospector will achieve (such as the first complete map of the moon's gravity, also announced this week).
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Born in Baghdad and the first woman to achieve the prestigious Pritzker prize for architecture (awarded to her in 2004 on a stage built for Catherine the Great), Hadid is accustomed to bucking the status quo.
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He was still awarded silver medal, becoming the first amputee athlete to achieve that feat.
The 25-year-old is the first European player to achieve that feat since Nick Faldo in 1989.
First, they must achieve cost predictability by moving beyond antiquated point solutions and engagements with multiple vendors.
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