In the first modern Olympiads, for example, the length of the marathon was inconsistent.
The idea was pioneered by the United States, the first modern democracy with a written constitution.
Economist Lawrence Klein and colleagues built the first modern macro model at the Brookings Institution in the 1960s.
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Sonoita Vineyards, south of Tucson, was the first modern winery to open in Arizona, more than 30 years ago.
In 1997, United Airlines, Lufthansa, and Air Canada partnered together and formed Star Alliance, the first modern-day airline alliance.
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Large, power-hitting lefty mashers like Jim Thome and Jason Giambi were among the first modern players victimized by the shift.
But the Liberals oppose the model of self-government won by the Nisga'a in the first modern-day treaty, signed in 1998.
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The first modern humans only appeared in Africa about 200, 000 years ago.
Later on, Asus launched in 2007 what is commonly seen as the first modern netbook, a basic machine targeted at emerging markets.
While oil gets the attention, America uses just 15% more of it today than when the first modern energy crisis hit in October 1973.
She and her sister-in-law wander around (through the first modern crowds we have seen in a Zhang film) and get snared in bureaucratic red tape.
And it was the first modern facility to offer night-time racing.
This internationally known and respected boutique institution, the first modern art museum in America, is about to unveil its first permanent installation in more than 50 years.
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All that began to had began to change a century or so ago with the discovery of Boolean algebra and the construction of the first modern computing machines.
Making its way to Britain, the flame will first take in Greek archaeological sites including the Acropolis and Olympic Stadium in Athens, site of the first modern Games in 1896.
Simple clinical diagnosis would probably trace the condition back to 1896, the year of the first modern Olympic Games, when a trainee accountant from Melbourne called Edwin Flack headed to Greece as Australia's first Olympian.
The Olympics have 12 main sponsors, from Kodak, which backed the first modern games in 1896, and Coca-Cola, part of the show since 1928, to Lenovo, a Chinese computer company that signed up in 2005.
The Vuitton family has quite a history: Company founder Louis was the first modern trunk-maker to make trunks flat on top (the better for stacking) and lighter (thanks to canvas sides) than the traditional stagecoach trunk.
My name is Chandra Brown and I'm the president of United Streetcar, which is a subsidiary of Oregon Iron Works, and we are hiring, and we are building the first modern streetcar in 58 years back in this country.
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In the great Front Porch Campaign of 1896, William Jennings Bryan engaged in the first modern presidential campaign, complete with modern campaign tactics, traveling around the country, giving over 600 speeches, on the clear premise that he was pursuing the position.
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Spain for example gave birth to the first modern ghost towns, whole mini-cities that were so under-populated their were incapable of supporting an infrastructure, created in part because its construction industry has been subsidised by European money for the past twenty five years.
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AeroVironment (AV), the official home charging-dock provider for the Nissan LEAF and co-developer of the first modern-day electric vehicle, the GM Impact, will partner with Hawaiian Electric Company (HECO) to design and build public and semi-private charging stations at convenient locations for electric vehicle owners, including high-rise buildings, resorts and rental car facilities.
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Having all the medals in one place illustrates their evolution and you can learn interesting trivia, like the fact that the first modern Olympics in 1896 lacked gold (silver was first place, bronze second and third place finishers received no medal), and since 1972, host cities have been free to change the design of one medal, usually the silver.
But now an exhibition at London's Tate Modern aims to demonstrate that she was an important figure in the history of modernism perhaps the first abstract modern artist in Lebanon and even the Arab world.
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In 1934 Chrysler brought out the first streamlined modern car, the Airflow.
The first recognisably modern weather maps appeared in the early 19th century, when proto-meteorologists stitched together eyewitness accounts of large storms to construct maps after the event.
The first unambiguously modern state, Mr Fukuyama believes, was the Qin dynasty in China, founded in 221BC.
This applies to all such state provision for old age and has done so from the day that Bismark brought in the first such modern system.
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The popular sense of English difference, however much it may have been tinged with Calvinist zeal, ultimately rested not on theological but on social foundations: the unprecedented prosperity and power of the first sizeable modern economy.
The essential point is that, for the first time in modern history, the defending powers are virtually as strong, and as ready, as the potential aggressors.
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