Their chief worries are those I described in the first paragraph: One is the difficulty of obtaining capital for expansion.
If your big idea isn't in the first paragraph, move it there.
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.
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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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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