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.
First, America needs a government that allows both small people to rise and large businesses to fail.
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 is America's effort to tighten two of the most popular crossing-points for illegals El Paso, Texas, and San Diego, California.
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.
Thanks to all that downsizing, the old social contract job security in return for commitment has been breaking down, first in America and then in other countries.
' 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.
First, America, unlike most European governments, has been singularly correct in condemning President Hugo Chavez's tactics and disregard for democratic traditions, and has appropriately recognised the validity of the claims of the government's opponents.
Jorge Bergoglio is the first pontiff from Latin America and the first pontiff to adopt the name of Francis the name of the rich young man from Assisi who renounced wealth and founded the Franciscan order of friars in 1290.
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.
Of particular relevance, Mr. Clizbe has literally written the book on foreign intelligence operations: Willing Accomplices: How KGB Covert Influence Agents Created Political Correctness, Obama's Hate-America-First Political Platform, and Destroyed America .
Its first move was to open North America's first safe heroin-injection site, a pilot project which, it is claimed, is curbing disease and deaths among addicts.
With cocaine, they are middlemen, dependent on producers in South America and obliged to move the product, first, across Central America.
Suntech is selling the two new silicon solar panels in North and Latin America first.
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Denouncing the video also appeals to the administration's reflexive habits of blaming America first.
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