To encourage generics makers to challenge patents on drugs, and introduce cheaper copies, an American law passed in 1984 says that the first one to do so will get a 180-day exclusivity period, in which no other generics maker can sell versions of the drug in question, as Ranbaxy supposedly won with Lipitor.
The first one had something to do with Medicare, and the second something about tax cuts.
"The thing that people want to do is settle back in, so one of the first things they do is try to clean up, " says Dr. Joe Guarisco, systems chief of emergency services at Ochsner Health System, which operates in the New Orleans area.
HUNTER-GAULT: Those campaigns, coupled with the government of Malawi's decision to introduce free primary education some 12 years ago, one of the first to do so on the African continent, have resulted in over 90 percent enrollment for both boys and girls.
Previous studies have used neuromarketing to probe consumers' relationships with brands, but Buyology says this one is the first to do so by tapping into both the conscious and nonconscious brain.
"No one's ever won a slam, the immediate one after winning their first one it's not the easiest thing to do, and I got extremely close, " he said.
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When adapting fiction like this for the screen, the challenge is always to find cinematic ways to express the writer's larger purpose, and one of the first things a period film has to do is to transcend its set.
But for one day only, it was simply about making it across the line -- and I am proud to say that I was one of the (last to be) first to do just that.
He was one of the first guys to do this on a massively commercial level.
One of the first publishers to do this successfully was TV Guide, way back in the late 1980s.
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"I'm the first one to admit we have to do something with Medicare, " said Rep. Charles Rangle, D-New York.
One of the first to do so was the Hermitage, because its holdings were regarded as the property of the tsar.
We were one of the first to do that.
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He is one of the first to do so, and it is indicative of the strides that must still be made as the other three members of England's top four went to private school.
The community had been plagued by gang violence, so once I arrived, one of the first things we tried to do was to mobilize a meeting with community leaders to deal with gangs.
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Double-amputee Oscar Pistorius broke new ground just by competing in the Games - the first paralympian to do so on the track - and every one of the 204 countries sent a delegation which included female athletes.
The need to foray into the spaghetti factory behind your television is especially unfortunate because, when the box occasionally flakes out, one of the first things customer support will tell you to do is to reset it by unplugging it and plugging it again.
Gild now works for Flour, one of the first big companies to do government-contracted recovery work.
De la Renta launched his signature fragrance in 1977, becoming one of the first American designers to do so.
Mr Gonzalez's wife told the BBC on Monday that one of the first things they would do after arriving would be to go for a long walk together.
One of the first things we need to do is recognize that utopia is not possible on this side of eternity.
Indeed, based on this state report regarding the host site that did not perform as well as peer schools and will ultimately be closed by New York City, it appears that a host of issues having nothing to do with School of One may be to blame for the first-year outcomes.
One of the first things that we wanted to do was to first listen and learn.
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One of the first things I was able to do for PhaseOne was act as a translator.
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"In all the SPL matches, the first goal is a critical one and, if you do get the first one, it gives you a great platform, something to work from, " said Brown.
One of the first things you have to learn to do as a reporter is to listen, and to listen to exactly how people talk.
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One of the first things doctors will do is try to get Giffords back to a regular schedule, said Dr. Alan Novick, medical director of rehabilitation for Memorial Healthcare System.
Capital One is believed to be the first company to specifically agree to do so, he said.
She added that her team was one of the first to develop for the device and would continue to do so.
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