• The first national race took place in Oslo in the 1860s.

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  • "The most significant feature of this year's Stage 100 is the placing of the National Theatre in joint first place with the Ambassador Theatre Group, " said Alistair Smith, deputy editor of The Stage.

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  • The Mets entered Monday 11 games behind the Atlanta Braves for first place in the National League East.

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  • They stopped selling tobacco products in 1996, and were the first national retailer to voluntarily decide to place all cough, cold and allergy products containing Pseudoephedrine (PSE) behind the pharmacy counter (which is good for mankind but a pain for me since I am an allergy sufferer, but I support it of course).

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  • Now he is in equal first place in the admittedly meaningless national polls (alongside Wesley Clark who seems to have peaked).

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  • This year, it won its first Pulitzer Prize in national reporting, solidifying its place in an evolving news landscape.

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  • As for reducing sentences in the first place, the government launched a national scheme last month to persuade states to create more places on community-service schemes.

    ECONOMIST: In the house of horror

  • "Congress should not allow the federal government to be involved in the flood insurance industry in the first place, let alone expand the national flood insurance program's authority, " the Club for Growth wrote on its website.

    CNN: Congress approves scaled-back Sandy aid bill

  • The Skopje roundtable was the first in a cycle of national events, which will take place in each country participating in the programme: Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Montenegro, Serbia, the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia, Turkey and Kosovo.

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  • Our splitsville rate is just two-thirds the national average, mainly because many New Yorkers never marry in the first place.

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  • The national figures show an improving picture - with more children given their first choice place, more getting one of their top three places and more getting at least one of their chosen options.

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  • Item one for the prosecution: a survey conducted by the influential Makati Business Club that found the highest court had fallen in esteem from first place in 1986 to No. 18, below even the national telephone service.

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  • The reason I had been there in the first place is that I was moderating a panel at a conference held by National Semiconductor, and the company had paid for my room.

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  • The first "encourages" member states to identify tax havens and place them on "national blacklists".

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  • "The best way to stop a bad guy from getting a gun in the first place is a good background check, " said Johnson, the chairman of the National Law Enforcement Partnership to Prevent Gun Violence.

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  • Mr. PETER SEPP (National Taxpayers Union): It seems a ridiculous notion that revenue Congress was never entitled to get in the first place now has to be offset with tax increases elsewhere.

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  • In 1994, thieves brought a ladder to a window at the National Gallery on the first day of the Olympics in Lillehammer and took the work, leaving a note in its place thanking the museum for its lousy security.

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