Mr Fishkin recalls that the first America-wide deliberative poll, in 1996, required airline sponsorship to fly participants to the venue in Austin, Texas.
However, special factors are largely to blame: first America's boom and then rising oil prices lifted the proportion of trade with countries outside the zone.
Philadelphia, thanks to Ben Franklin, was the home of America's first hospital, later America's first medical school and first nursing school.
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When Jorge Bergoglio stepped onto the balcony at the Vatican on Wednesday evening to reveal himself as the new leader of the world's 1.2 billion Catholics, he made history as the first non-European pope of the modern era, the first from Latin America, the first Jesuit and the first to assume the name Francis.
He had first seen America in the early 1930s, travelling on a Harkness Fellowship.
The moral majority will tighten its hold on corporate life, first in America, but then elsewhere too.
First, America's regulatory regime allows operators to decide how to use their spectrum and also allows them to resell it.
The first North America shale play, the Barnett Shale west of Fort Worth, took 19 years to develop into a broad commercial success.
It takes first place among the biotech clusters ranked by the Milken Institute in its first "America's Biotech and Life Science Clusters" study, released today.
' And that was the first thing America noticed about Frank Sinatra: that miraculous voice, strong and subtle, wisecracking and wistful, streetwise but defiantly sweet.
First, America's current-account deficit is no longer a purely private-sector matter.
First, America has made particularly big productivity strides in retailing, where big firms such as Wal-Mart have been able to open sprawling warehouses and superstores around the country.
No mention of contemporary music can fail to note its most essential import, the celebrated "British invasion" of the 1960s, first to America and soon to the world beyond.
This is the first chance America has had to look into the eyes of the two men who would be president and to hear what they say to each other, face to face.
Oracle Business OnLine has been running as a pilot since October, and early this year it will be launched commercially, first in America and some months later in Europe and Asia.
All of which led to enormous speculation about what these two popes might have said to one another after making history together: Benedict's surprise resignation paved the way for the first pope from Latin America, the first Jesuit, and the first to call himself Francis after the 13th century friar who devoted himself to the poor, nature and working for peace.
All of which has led to enormous speculation about what these two men in white might have to say to one another after making history together: Benedict's resignation paved the way for the first pope from Latin America, the first Jesuit, and the first to call himself Francis after the 13th century friar who devoted himself to the poor, nature and working for peace.
Suntech is selling the two new silicon solar panels in North and Latin America first.
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In the Obama administration, we have had the epitome of the Blame America First ideology.
First, unless America's bankruptcy wave comes to an unexpected halt, the demands on it are likely to rise.
The highly anticipated return of Torchwood: Children of Earth will kick off the first of BBC AMERICA's HD offerings.
When they had first come to America, Lei had insisted that they be active in their local Chinese community.
That would not be the first time Latin America had dashed foreigners' hopes.
The arrival of the ship, filled with 4.4 million cubic feet of LNG, marked the company's first delivery to America.
In 1905, an Italian immigrant named Gennaro Lombardi opened the first pizzeria in America on Spring Street in New York City.
Republicans would love to notch up an historic first, and America is surely ready for a woman in the White House.
McCain's credibility went down the tubes when the 72-year-old candidate offered the slogan "America First, " and then picked Palin as his potential successor.
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