Some were probably watching Olympic sport for the first time during those Games but when they see Paralympic sport for the first time they are going to be blown away by it.
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Manulife failed to meet expectations for the first time since going public in 1999.
Jenkins, Wales' most capped hooker with 39 Test appearances, earns a deserved recall, while Evans starts an international for the first time after going on as a second-half substitute against South Africa last November.
He asked for additional time to get the troop surge going, and now that the interim report came out, he's asking for additional time until September for people to fully evaluate the effectiveness of the troop surge.
Over in Serie A, league leaders Juventus lost for the second time this year going down 1-0 at Roma.
Lieutenant Colonel ALEX FENLEY (Special Forces Command): When you come into the Special Forces community, you know you're going to be deployed for a longer period of time, the demands are going to be a little bit different and maybe more arduous.
George was a drowning man after the game in Norway, going down for the third time after defeats in Skopje and Amsterdam.
At the same time, the offline competition for advertising is going down.
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For the first chunk of his career he was playing full-time for Botafogo while going to medical school at the University of Sao Paulo's campus in Ribeirao Preto.
The first real chance of the second half came in the 65th minute and it was one which effectively settled the encounter, with the Hull defence's marking going awry going missing for the first time in the game.
And I think some of the stuff that's come out of yesterday's meeting also is that for the first time, we're going to take some steps to ensure that those that are in the immigration process, which in years past has been backed up considerably, that we provide some ability for people to check where in that process they are.
The butterflies truly disappeared after going upside down for the first time, with my cheeks wrapped back around my ears, staring straight down at the San Francisco Bay.
For a man whose professional life is now spent largely thinking about horse racing, Peterson came to the sport late, going to the track for the first time 14 years ago.
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Should your Z5 require a repair, Nubia will also provide a temporary unit to keep you going for the time being.
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"It's just going to take a little time for the Street to wake up to what is going on, " he said.
This case has intrigued matrimonial lawyers and other divorce professionals for months, and it looks as though the debate is going to continue for some time.
It's just the beginning though - it's going to take time for even the artists here to get back their confidence.
The time has come for another round of reform, going through the tax code to eliminate provisions that allow individuals and organizations to escape their obligations.
"Ironically, I was interrogated at the airport for hours about my last name when I was going to present the film in America for the first time, " he wrote.
It is now clear that the prices of materials and the cost of living will both be going up for a long time throughout the world.
"The time has come for changes and there are going to be changes, " Young said at the weekend.
"We've held a substantial long position in the Mexican peso since the beginning of the year, which has done very well, and we're going to keep that for the time being simply on fundamentals and attractive valuations, " said Dagmar Dvorak, an investment manager of fixed income and currencies at Baring Asset Management in London.
So, somewhere along the line between now and November, I've got to make a decision about what is more important for me to make a decision based on the stances that I advocate in the past or for the first time in my life I'm going to contradict myself and just throw everything out the one that I advocated and believed in.
And the one thing that no one really talks about that I just think is going to be a really big difference is that the Patriots for the first time in two and a half months are going to be playing a game where weather is not a factor.
Qatar, ranked 105th in the world, had reached the knockout stage for just the second time in seven appearances and looked capable of going one better than 2000's last-eight showing when substitute Fabio Cesar made it 2-1 straight after Maya Yoshida's 62nd-minute dismissal.
Bus routes have been diverted for the foreseeable future and letters are going out to families informing them of school transport arrangements in time for the start of the new term.
"For the time being, it's going to be something that's very expensive, " admits Space Adventures Chief Executive Eric Anderson .
Argentina are trying to win the Davis Cup for the first time, while Spain are going for a third title.
Balpa, which commissioned the report, is warning that problems with fatigue could get worse under European proposals that would see the maximum flying time for UK pilots going up from 900 hours in a 12-month period to 1, 000 hours.
Iwata says somewhat immodestly that "one of the reasons we believe this is the time for Nintendo to launch the Wii U is it's going to be important for the world, " adding that its "focus is on how we can make our new console different" than its competitors.
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