Maturity, for a first growth vintage wine is 25 years or so, but then it plateaus for a couple more decades.
Despite a few minor tweaks, most notably Mouton-Rothschild being elevated to First Growth status in 1973, the list has barely changed.
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For a brief period before the judge's ruling, the global legal wig industry was excited by the prospect of its first growth spurt in decades.
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Stronger sales are now feeding through into new house building: housing starts rose by 12% in the year to June, the first growth in 12 months.
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According to the Conseil Interprofessionel du Vin de Bordeaux, first growth prices rose nearly 350% during the decade through the 2000 vintage (regular AOC Bordeaux price--for vin ordinaire from the region--ended unchanged).
But it would have been a total bore to the casual wine lover and consisted of nothing more than a handful of First Growth Bordeaux Chateaux and an endless list of the same top Burgundies from different producers.
We did know this: We were never going to have jobs growth without first having economic growth.
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 first big growth spurt took place in the 1960s behind high tariff walls.
The first quarter growth followed a contraction in GDP of 0.5% in the final three months of 2010.
These first three growth pathways have a reasonably clear path forward and can build from successful models and existing experience.
They all offer many of the wines found at traditional auction houses, including first-growth Bordeaux, grand cru Burgundy and great Super Tuscans.
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First quarter growth was even better, at 11.6 percent on the year.
Their label's name is supposed to be a nod to both first-growth wines and to hip-hop, a genre whose musicians refer to their ensembles as crews.
What economist Art Laffer said in the 1970s--which was proved true in the 1980s and 1990s--is that the best way to boost tax receipts is to first boost growth.
It is hard to argue, Savannah, it is hard to argue that the steps taken in the Recovery Act didn't directly lead to the first economic growth in a year.
The latter was actually the preferred location of a late wine writer and friend of mine who "stored" everything from cheap Cabernet to first-growth Bordeaux along the edges of his living-room rug.
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Presiding over a roomful of 300 adoring patrons at New York's Guggenheim Museum last autumn stands as a highlight of Baroness Philippine de Rothschild's 15-year tenure at the top of the first-growth winery that bears her father's name.
The other sharp equities move in Asia was in the Philippines, where the PSE Composite dropped 3.2% as strong first quarter growth data beat expectations, triggering profit-taking in a market that has already gained 21% so far in 2013.
The Russian government estimated GDP growth at 2.3% year over year in March compared with the 1.0% first quarter average growth rate there.
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Not long after it opened, the neighborhood showed the first signs of growth in years.
Despite a positive revision to Japan's first-quarter growth figures, the Nikkei Average also fell.
At that time, as is typical, growth first surged and then began to moderate.
Excluding energy, the first-quarter growth rate for the remaining nine sectors would be -20.5%.
Thursday's first estimate for growth is welcome news to everyone, not least government ministers.
This follows first quarter GDP growth which unexpectedly slipped to 7.7% from 7.9% in the previous quarter.
This is significant as JDA three months ago was reporting first quarter earnings growth of 24% year-over-year.
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The drop came even as the Philippines' first-quarter growth data came in better than expected at 7.8%.
Still, April's stronger numbers might help to reassure companies and investors after the weaker first-quarter growth jolted global financial markets.
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