With the help of my colleagues who didn't miss a word, I'll try and summarise as best I can some often complex exchanges - but the upshot is that one of the key aspects of the Bill which has dogged it from the very first may now have to be rewritten before it's brought back to the Assembly for a vote.
In Britain, where the programme is now into its fourth week, the number of website hits has grown from 350, 000 a day in the first week to 3m a day now (with each visit lasting an average of 16 minutes).
Passengers who had been expecting to be among the first to travel on a 787 from the UK in May and June will now be transferred to other aircraft, the airline said.
"We really have special plans to collect information and to use from now on, probably next year, the first six months of next year, to select taxpayers to control, " says chief tax collector Salvador Ruiz.
Much of Labour's support, however, stems from disenchantment with the first government to be elected under the now unpopular proportional-representation system.
The common ancestor is, however, too recent for the new species to be a remnant of the first human excursion from Africa, the one that led to Java man and Peking man, now known as Homo erectus.
The biggest news for business continues to come from outside the business realm: first the war in Iraq, and now the outbreak of the so-called SARS (severe acute respiratory syndrome) virus.
Mitchell may be one of the first to benefit from a new brain cancer vaccine, now in midstage testing at Pfizer and Avant Immunotherapeutics.
We have come a long way from when the Internet was first launched, to where we are now, not only in regards to how much information is available online, but how much information people willingly share online.
In a sense the problem is the same as deciding which quality of ore to mine in the first place: we now need to either find richer sources to recycle from or arrange how we use these materials in the first place to facilitate recycling.
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While in the past the SEC might first talk directly to the suspected trader, the Commission now prefers to operate under the radar, first collecting trading data from various sources and investigating potential connections between those involved in the headlines.
The first part is to raise the state pension age (now 65 for men and rising from 60 for women) to 68 by 2050.
Those in the US suffering from blindness due to retinis pigmentosa (RP) will now be able to regain some vision bionically for the first time ever, thanks to Second Sight's Argus II retinal prosthesis.
Sociologists say it encourages abuse, notably in the trafficking of the sort that Sakina first suffered from but is now ready to pay for.
Wine has a long history in China, reaching back more than 2, 000 years to the first wine imported from Ferghana in what is now Uzbekistan.
In the first the excuses are going to come out from the Americans, now, aren't they?
Mr. Ferraro said he spends a lot of time at the compound with his three children from his first marriage, now aged 19 to 26.
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What we can be sure is that the growth of sophisticated financial systems will continue to play an important role in fashioning the changes in all of our lives, including funding (often speculatively) the technologies that have transformed our world already from an agricultural to an industrial economy, and are now perhaps shaping the first post-industrial information economy.
Now I believe that I can win matches from the first round to the final.
Despite Rovers' endeavour, it was a scoreline that did little to flatter the Gunners, who now have three wins from their first four games.
Post-nomination Romney has made statements about abortion that would have likely prevented him from getting the nomination in the first place, but which are apparently now judged necessary to win the general election.
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"Cosan is now the world's first integrated ethanol company, from the sugarcane fields to the fueling stations, " says Martin.
Yet Bush's resoluteness aside, there are people like Robert Gordon, president of investment firm Twenty-First Securities, musing that when it comes to taxes, the news from now on is likely to be unpleasant.
"From having three confused spectators the first time, and us being super scared of the Americans, to now where there is true competition, well, it's really brought women's golf to a new level, " she said.
"I feel like this whole tournament I've only played clay-court players from my first round to now, and everyone was also smaller than me, " the 31-year-old said after Saturday's 7-5 6-2 win over Italian seventh seed Sara Errani -- beaten by Sharapova in last season's French Open final.
John Major, the first one, is now an ex-prime minister trying to settle scores from beyond the political grave by being rude about Lady Thatcher in his memoirs.
It feels like just yesterday I was sitting down to write the introduction to a CES column for our first special issue of Distro from the show floor, and now, well, it's over.
For the first quarter, the company now expects to lose 20 to 30 cents per share from previous guidance of break even.
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One of his first moves in office was to persuade his European Union peers to remove a clause from the now-frozen Lisbon treaty stating that competition was a key EU objective.
Ralph Lauren said that as a result of better-than-expected profitability in the first nine months of the year, it now expects operating margin from continuing operations for fiscal 2013 to be about .75 to 1 percent point above the year before.
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