Still, AES embraced the risk, immediately buying enough coal to ensure that Ekibastuz could produce power through its first winter.
Officials with the National Interagency Fire Center in Boise said Wednesday in their first 2013 summer outlook that a dry winter and expected warming trend mean the potential for significant fire activity will be above normal on the West Coast, in the Southwest and portions of Idaho and Montana.
The latest findings show that virtually all the ice surveyed is what is called first-year ice, ice that only grew this past winter, as opposed to tougher multi-year ice which survives the warmth of summer.
Despite his finish, Boit's tenacity impressed gold medallist Bjorn Daehlie -- who with his victory that day became the first man to win six gold medals at the Winter Olympics -- so-much-so that the Norwegian legend delayed the medal presentation ceremony so he could embrace Boit as he crossed the line.
The problem that surfaced in Minnesota last winter was, at first, a mystery.
And that's not the only modern first for the NHS. This winter the NHS will be the world's first health service - indeed the world's only - health service capable of providing the new meningitis vaccine to the groups most at risk.
But that first taste occurred in Moscow, in the middle of a bleak Russian winter, in 1979.
Ms. Cochran, who was stunning in Long Wharf Theatre's 2006 revival of "Private Lives" and the 2008 production of "The Lion in Winter" that introduced me to Writers' Theatre, proves to be a first-class singer as well.
If the casual observer were to take a personal inventory of the New York Yankees at the close of business on the first day of the 2012 Winter Meetings, they would see a ball club that is saddled with burdens and difficulties that some might deem insurmountable.
Worse, Isis relied on just a winter line for its first three years, missing out on a spring season that could have smoothed financial bumps considerably.
Indeed, it seems very likely that the winter solstice was not dedicated to Sol by the Romans until after the bishop of Rome first celebrated Christmas on December 25th in 336 AD.
Back in winter of 2001, it was Turner who first stated publicly at a board meeting that Levin should step down, after the merger between America Online and Time Warner proved disastrous.
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