Impressed that we wrote the whole first paragraph of this review out on the screen?
We'd amend that first paragraph slightly: There was, it seemed to us, a strong undercurrent of nostalgia.
Which means, hopefully, that you came out of that first paragraph with a bit better understanding of math.
Their chief worries are those I described in the first paragraph: One is the difficulty of obtaining capital for expansion.
My introduction attempts to pepper a first paragraph with 10 action verbs and self-descriptive words that would be needed in my resume.
If your big idea isn't in the first paragraph, move it there.
Addendum: Pace my first paragraph above, I want to make it clear I think Obama has been a far from perfect president.
But the first paragraph above is exactly how many people start important speeches to large groups of customers, clients, colleagues and industry representatives.
In the first paragraph of its Article IV consultation today, it raises the question of whether it is time to change macroeconomic policies.
Their chief worries are those I described in the first paragraph.
You would never dream of sending an important document to a client or even a simple email to a colleague that was written similarly to the first paragraph above.
The first paragraph is the who-what-why-where-when facts of the story, and those are easy to get (for journalists) and involve the basics of the breaking news, whatever it is.
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But Cook did apologize, and he used the S-word ("extremely sorry"), and it was in the first paragraph, and he didn't charge his customers with ineptitude, or rebuke them in any way.
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She also defended the creativity necessary to write the first paragraph of a story, known as a "lede, " saying Meltwater "misses the mark" when it argues that ledes are teasers and not summaries of news.
Our reason for suspecting that a house-price bubble has developed in the six countries listed in the first paragraph is that in all of them house prices are close to record levels in relation to both rents and average incomes.
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Using Factiva, a Dow Jones-owned media-archive service, about 25 New York-centric newspapers, magazines, websites and blogs are scanned daily and scored based on what names are mentioned, the number of times the name occurs and the placement of the mention in the article, such as in the first paragraph, in a headline or caption.
You can't make the reader love you in the first sentence or paragraph, but you can lose the reader right away.
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In other words, the first several bullet points or paragraph of your online profiles could be considered your elevator pitch.
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The 11 paragraph article spends the first 8 paragraphs discussing some hedge funds who bought Facebook (FB) in the quarter.
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Here's the key paragraph from the statement that the Bank put out first thing this morning.
Along the way, Winchester pauses every third paragraph or so to delve into some topic that is not, at first glance, relevant to his story: Lloyd's of London, for instance, or the Reuters news agency, or Dutch colonial policy in Java, or the biological theories of Alfred Russel Wallace.
Though that idea was quickly chucked, several works from that first issue are in this collection, including a story by David Foster Wallace, delivered languidly and without paragraph breaks from an ex-convict, and an essay by Zev Borow about the Hawaiian secessionist movement.
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