But in fact the ball was in play after the first drop - so he incurred a two-shot penalty, leading to the horrendous sextuple-bogey.
Wilkinson missed his first two attempts at goal and a first-half drop-goal but produced the goods when it really mattered in the final few minutes.
Last November the company suffered its first drop in same-store sales in 10 years.
Separately on Monday, the Semiconductor Industry Association said global semiconductor sales had their first year-on-year drop since 2001.
Gartner says worldwide PC shipments in Q1 were 84.3 million units, down 1.1% from a year ago, the first year-over-year drop in six quarters.
The world's largest maker of personal computers, Hewlett-Packard, has seen a 6% drop in first-quarter sales as demand for PCs continued to shrink.
Should they defer to their husband when he insists that she stop kissing their first-grade son at school drop-off?
First-quarter earnings were down 20% --the first such drop in eight years.
In a surprise news release Oct. 18, Schering-Plough announced positive results for its home-brewed compound, precipitating a first big drop in Vertex shares--even though Schering isn't presenting any details at the liver meeting.
In a surprise news release Oct. 18, Schering-Plough (nyse: SGP - news - people ) announced positive results for its home-brewed compound, precipitating a first big drop in Vertex shares--even though Schering isn't presenting any details at the liver meeting.
In October, the company announced its first drop in monthly same-store sales in nine years.
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The drop in first-quarter production was due to major scheduled plant maintenance during the first quarter, lower copper grades and lower recovery.
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Starbucks chose a new chief executive following a comparatively poor year during which it reported its first-ever drop in customer transactions and saw its share price fall by 42%.
The revenue increase is the second in as many years following a first-ever drop in Indian casino revenue in 2009 as the worst recession in decades took its toll on consumer spending.
On Wednesday, a Bloomberg survey said that the six largest U.S. banks, including JP Morgan and Wells Fargo, may post an 11% drop in first-quarter profit, threatening a rally that pushed bank stocks 19% higher this year.
Fly-half star Jonny Wilkinson provided all of England's points in the first half, with a drop-goal and two penalties as the scores were tied at 9-9 at the half.
This was the first quarterly drop in real GDP in three-and-a-half years (see first chart below).
WHITEHOUSE: Advance Estimate of GDP for the Fourth Quarter of 2012
This was the first three hundred-point drop for the blue chip index in almost a year.
Even more startling: LCD TV sales were off 3% year-0ver-year in Q1, the first-ever sales drop in the history of the category.
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The Scot won a cagey first set with a fine drop-shot before a very close second which Blake won on a tie-break.
The November drop was the first year-to-year decline since March 2010.
Viewing figures for the sport were inevitably lower than for the opening ceremony - and on the first Saturday morning there was a noticeable drop in front-page newspaper coverage.
Yes, it's bang on to say that the final figures last year - the first year of higher tuition fees - confirmed a drop of just 1.9% in applications amongst pupils in Wales wanting to go on to higher education, a far smaller fall than in England.
Wales are in the Plate after finishing third in Pool B to drop out of the first-tier Cup competition.
The 16 first-round losers will drop into a separate repechage competition, which will confusingly be known as the Parker Pen Shield.
While the first year-over-year drop in profits in almost a decade might give some investors pause, there's little cause for concern for the future of the company.
If the situation does not improve, ERCOT will first drop load resources (a market-based demand response program) and other resources under contract to be interrupted during an emergency.
What might be less obvious is that it has been asking for permission to do that since 2009, during which time total mail volume has fallen more than 5% and First-Class volume has drop by more than 12%.
Ronan O'Gara got Ireland's only score with a drop-goal in the first half.
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