Or the first joint police-customs unit, painstakingly put together in the late 1980s but also short-lived?
Provide more temporary tax incentives like the cash for clunkers program or the first time homebuyers credit?
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Which was more important: electing the first African-American President or the first woman?
Not quite up there with the first Catholic president or the first African-American, but certainly heading in that direction.
We weren't alone in the business or the first in the business.
The question now is whether this is a blip or the first glimpse of systemic problems that Facebook has avoided throughout its childhood.
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The first time I played Halo felt a little bit like the first time I played DOOM or the first time I played Half-Life 2.
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And I don't spend a lot of time thinking about being the first this or the first that because it would take up space in my brain.
Ms. Muldoon says grandparents need to start saving early, whether they want to provide education for their grandchildren or pay for their wedding or the first mortgage payment.
Her presence on the ticket would effectively diminish the Democratic argument of being the national party with either a woman or the first African-American candidate on the ticket.
The rains usually arrive over the southern state of Kerala by the end of May or the first week of June, and gradually cover the entire country by July.
That would leave the Democratic race as a straight fight between two candidates who offer a historic choice to America - the first black leader, or the first woman president.
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The primary task for law enforcement after such an attack is to identify the perpetrator(s), apprehend them, and examine whether this attack was a one-off or the first in a series.
Wall Street analysts expect NBCi to have made a loss in 2000, but the firm said it expected to become profitable in the fourth quarter of 2001 or the first quarter of 2002.
Like the sound of ice clattering in the cocktail shaker, or the first whiff of charcoal smoke from the grill, that first sip of cool soup is a one-way ticket away from the labors of the day.
As with the iPhone, new iterations of Mac OS X, or the first Android phones, a certain amount of glory awaits anyone who can be the first to demonstrate a method of remotely taking control of the device.
It's also nice to be back visiting in France -- the last time I was in the south of France -- or the first time, rather, was as a college student, and I've never forgotten the extraordinary hospitality of the French people and the extraordinary views that are available here.
"BT cannot meet all demands on the first day, or in the first tranche, " said an Oftel spokesman explaining why the system was needed.
An even number of respondents thought the first rate hike will either occur in the third quarter of 2011 or after the first quarter of 2012.
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"Gut decisions are really fast and influenced by all kinds of things, like stereotyping, or liking the first or last thing you see, " he explains.
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.
Much of the talk has been about the breakdown but it wasn't an issue last Wednesday against the Golden Lions or for the first 20 minutes on Saturday, when our attack was so fluent.
Again, all-too-often investors rely exclusively upon the reassurances of the very culprits who recommended the strategies or investments in the first place to the effect that the demise of the investment or plan was due to uncontrollable, unforeseeable market forces.
Dell said that it was not providing an outlook for the 2014 fiscal year or for the first fiscal quarter, given the proposed merger agreement to take the company private.
Those who want to present the bullish view will give you sales or price numbers for real estate for the first half or the last year.
That is a very strong indictment, and if one had read only the first two sentences, or even just the first, one might conclude that the author was opposed to the bill.
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Until Mr Gephardt bowed out, the main focus of the political circus after New Hampshire was supposed to be South Carolina, the first southern primary, or Arizona, the first big western one.
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However, she suggested the 2015 date could either be a one-off or replace the first bank holiday in May.
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