For the first time since passage of the Affordable Care Act, aka Obamacare, polling reveals that more Americans support the requirement that all Americans purchase health insurance than those who oppose the measure.
Two weeks later, it was announced that the fabled Northwest Passage was navigable for the first time in recorded history, facilitating the new oil frontier.
Chairman of English Nature Baroness Young of Old Scone, herself a Labour peer, said the bill "must not become a battleground for wider matters of town versus country, or simply spoiling tactics which jeopardise the bill's passage and risk sinking the first decent wildlife legislation for 20 years".
At first the duopoly dismissed Passage, claiming it was insecure and doomed to failure.
The first in the series, "The Passage, " was an instant bestseller in 2010 winning widespread praise from critics and a worldwide legion of fans.
The document's passage sets the stage for the first elections to a fully constitutional Iraqi parliament.
The hosts' best passage of play came in the first half, with Mido making a terrible mess of an inviting chance.
At a time when discrimination against aboriginal peoples was common, Amundsen was a devoted student of the lessons of the Netsilik Eskimos, who lived in the Canadian arctic, and with whom Amundsen had spent substantial time studying their diets, their clothes, and their survival skills, while on the first successful expedition to discover and traverse the Northwest Passage.
She said the publication of the Report on Proposals and Policies on Climate Change Targets marked the completion of the first period of "focused action" following the passage of the Climate Change (Scotland) Act.
In a passage in the first act, for example, Pippin (Matthew James Thomas) liberally sows his oats.
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During the first weeks of August the ice has opened the NE passage along the coast of Russia.
But after an easy passage through the first phase of the 2010 preliminaries, Morocco have struggled in their final round group, picking up two points from their first three matches.
In 1639, the transit of Venus (its passage across the Sun's disc) was first observed by astronomer Jeremiah Horrocks.
But after the 2010-11 season, the worst of his career (he finished with a losing record for the first time, and the Devils missed the playoffs), Brodeur acknowledged that the passage of time had dulled his quickness and athleticism.
The first gamble can certainly claim some successes, notably the removal of Silvio Berlusconi in Italy and the passage, across southern Europe, of reforms that would recently have seemed unthinkable.
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On the agenda for the first round are such old chestnuts as the Palestinian airport and seaport in Gaza and the Palestinians' right of safe passage from Gaza to the West Bank.
First it was wealthy Westerners who could afford the time and passage to this remote spot in the Indian Ocean.
The bill was first proposed in June, but Katrina spurred its passage.
On his first trip to Dubai in 1986, Alukkas traced the passage previously made by millions of his fortune-seeking countrymen from coastal Kerala.
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But first, we're going to continue our conversation about the passage of Proposition 8 in California last week.
Only a 14-year-old sensibility could read this passage when Miss Steele first encounters Christian without laughing at the witlessness of the words.
On your first question on the CR, I mean, we obviously support the passage of the three-week CR, precisely because we need the time to negotiate a final CR for fiscal year 2011.
At another point, he quotes a long passage from Thomas Jefferson, who established and helped to run the first U.S. patent office.
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In a truly remarkable passage of play, Xabi Alonso scored his first effort but the retake, which came because Spanish players encroached into the area, was saved.
Board of Education, and 36 years after the passage of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, Augusta National welcomed its first African-American member.
Just after the half-hour mark, the contest sprung to life with a frantic passage of play, Lampard's first-time ball releasing Drogba, whose slight hesitation allowed Gael Givet to produce a brilliant saving tackle.
At first it became a way to streamline passage of deficit-reducing measures in the Senate.
In his first term as President, Wilson won passage of several important domestic measures, including the creation of the Federal Reserve System.
First of all, you should have seen moments ago a statement from the President on the House passage of the Violence Against Women Act.
What spectacle confronted them when they, first the host, then the guest, emerged silently, doubly dark, from obscurity by a passage from the rere of the house into the penumbra of the garden?
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