Earnings growth has averaged 27% over the last five years, and a year ago PPD introduced the first and, to date, only dividend in the contract research industry.
Back in the day, games like Pong, Ms. Pac-Man and Donkey Kong introduced the first generation of gamers to the magic of interactive entertainment.
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"However, as the new subscribers are mainly low-end users and tariff adjustments are steadily and gradually introduced in the first quarter, average revenue per minute of usage recorded a decrease, " Mr Wang added.
Nvidia announced its first LTE-integrated app processor, the Tegra 4i, and Broadcom introduced its first LTE baseband chip in the market.
The challenges of balancing life and religion were not first introduced to Duchman and Schwartz with the inception of The Fresh Diet.
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The Cyber Intelligence Sharing and Protection Act (CISPA), now making its way back into the House of Representatives is a bill that was first introduced and passed by the House in 2011 but failed to gain traction in Senate, due to heavy criticism from civil liberties groups like the ACLU and the EFF.
ISAs are tax-free savings and investment vehicles that were first introduced by the government in 1999, replacing Personal Equity Plans (Peps) and Tax-Exempt Special Savings Accounts (Tessas).
The government has asked the committee to examine the proposals before the finalised bill is introduced - and their first group of witnesses include Age UK, Carers UK, the TUC, the Institute for Fiscal Studies, the Pensions Policy Institute, former government pensions policy adviser Dr Ros Altmann, former Labour minister Baroness Hollis of Heigham and Professor Jay Ginn (Institute of Gerontology, King's College London), Women's Budget Group.
The test, first introduced by the last Labour government and being rolled out by the coalition, can also place applicants into a "work-related activity group", where they will be expected to take steps to prepare themselves for work in the medium to long term.
Then actor John Cusack and a group of first responders introduced the next band.
The same company that introduced the first pressurized cabin transport in 1938, the first successful jetliner in 1958, and the first jumbojet in 1968 continues to set the standard for the aerospace industry today with the 787 airliner.
Arguing that focus groups were never really all that effective in the first place, agencies and research facilities have introduced a variety of methods aimed at shaking up the traditional focus group approach.
David Greenwood, Assistant Director of Education, Sport and Culture said the loans were first introduced when tuition fees went up in the UK in 2006.
You know, it's been nearly forty years since Intel introduced the first microprocessor, and even at this late date the company comprises a whopping eighty percent of the global market for CPUs.
In the 1950s, sliding-door closets were introduced, according to California Closets, and the walk-in first emerged a decade or so later.
But Henry was no match for the French king, who introduced France's first standing army in 1445, and ultimately crushed the overstretched English within a little over two years.
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Hailing it as as the future of the (small) monitor whereas Tablet PCs were the future of the notebook, Microsoft introduced Smart Display in 2002 and killed it less than a year after the first models shipped.
After a lull in the tempo of the match, Hodgson introduced Dempsey from the bench in place of Stephen Kelly and with practically his first touch - a header from a Davies cross - he would have put Fulham ahead overall for the first time in the tie but for Chimenti's save.
He added: "His great achievement were the years when he was Chancellor of the Exchequer, before the First World War, and introduced unemployment benefits...those were his great achievements and it makes him the major figure in radical politics over the last 150 years".
Most of the pieces were introduced with the first Parker Brothers iteration of the game in 1935, and the Scottie dog and wheelbarrow were added in the early 1950s.
The first known line-item veto bill was introduced in Congress during the 1870s and there were more than 200 attempts to pass it before it was approved last year.
International qualifying tournaments were introduced by the Royal and Ancient Golf Club for the first time this year to make it more convenient and less expensive for overseas-based players to qualify for The Open.
Two years before its 2003 launch (as the iTunes Music Store), Apple introduced the iTunes client as a desktop music management program and implemented it as the device manager for the first iPod later in 2001.
Specifically, Mr. Bush will endorse key elements of bipartisan bills first introduced in the Senate and House last year and modeled after an energy security blueprint drafted by the remarkably broadly based Set America Free Coalition.
Within its first six weeks, ChefVille has become a mainstay for 45 million monthly players and FarmVille 2 introduced stunning 3-D farming for the first time in a web browser becoming the most popular social game within three days of network launch.
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The tax, which was created under the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, has been at the center of controversy since it was first introduced.
He introduced the "Putting People First" programme and received the Queen's Police Medal in the Queen's Birthday Honours in June 2005.
Currently, royalty schemes for internet streaming services are facing possible changes in Congress as two bills, the Internet Radio Fairness Act and the Interim First Act, have been recently introduced.
Enabling consumer electronic devices to respond to natural hand movements all around a screen, Elliptic's breakthrough technology is the first of its kind commercially available and has been incorporated in the Windows 8 Gesture Suite, introduced today.
The First Minister said a pilot scheme will be introduced in 40 schools in the coming school year and the scheme will be funded before the next Assembly elections in May 2007.
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