Once we had control, our first order of operation was to maintain access.

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The first order of business, politicians of most stripes agree, is regaining control of the streets.

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The controversy is over whether or not the Senate will vote to stop the Federal Communications Commission from doing what Congress never authorized it to do in the first place, namely, to implement its December 2010 order to regulate traffic control practices on the Internet.

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And so the first order of business -- and this appears to be at least now under control -- is that you keep the water in the spent fuel ponds and you keep cooling the reactors.

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Though there was cheering and champagne in the control room when the first high-energy beams collided, sighs of relief are more the order of the day.

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Part of his popularity flows from being one of the first Westerners to be initiated into the secretive Juna order of monks, the largest of the 13 powerful sects that control religious affairs at the Kumbh festival.

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