John Martin, Gilead chief executive, catapulted the company to the top of the biotech industry with his wise acquisitions in HIV, allowing the first single-pill combination treatments for that disease.
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"Country Girl, " the first single off Palmer's self-titled 2007 debut album, made her the first African-American female in 20 years to hit Billboard's country chart, according to Country Music Television.
As soon as the album began to lose momentum, the record label wanted the band to have the first single off "Rumours" -- "Go Your Own Way" -- ready to go.
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"Lion Face Boy" is the first single from Seabear's sophomore album, We Built a Fire, and it's a perfect display of the band's knack for constructing mountains of instrumentation on a simple idea.
The DuoSense single-chip solution is the first single-chip on the market to support both pen and multi-touch input for mobile computing, allowing for easier integration and flexibility in thinner and slimmer computing designs.
The memorial, designed by sculptor Sam Holland and funded through the RNLI Heritage Trust, is the first single monument to commemorate all those who have lost their lives in the cause of saving others at sea.
The IBM team's innovation to create the first single molecule picture, of a molecule called pentacene, was to use the tip to pick up a single, small molecule made up of a carbon and an oxygen atom.
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The self-produced, self-financed 1996 EP sold more than 10, 000 copies regionally and garnered respectable airtime for the modern-rock favorite "Shimmer, " a song destined to become the first single from "Sunburn, " part of a record deal with Sony 550 Music.
The new band includes an American guitarist, the first single release -- 'The Death of You and Me' -- has a New Orleans-style brass section, and the videos for all the singles so far -- including 'Dream On' and 'AKA ...
"There was never any doubt that the first original single from Daft Punk in years was going to be one of the biggest debut singles of 2013, " the director of label relations said.
And what makes it interesting is it was the very first single that Al Green recorded with Hi Records, produced by Willie Mitchell, which is the label that he really became Al Green in terms of - became a national star.
More importantly, it was the first British single to sell more than one million copies, having spent seven weeks at number one over the summer.
The first are single industry towns like where Facebook, Google and Microsoft are based.
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And it was the very first single he recorded for them, but it was a flop.
"Here Comes the Sun" had become the first Fab Four single to reach the iTunes charts at No. 199.
One of the first tasks of the single unified body would be to produce a coherent regulatory framework for the industry.
This was to allow them to qualify for the first intake into the single currency, an achievement many pundits considered impossible given the country's past extravagances.
The Bank of England has been able to cut interest rates below those in the euro area for the first time since the single currency started in 1999.
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The first two are single vineyard wines, and of these, I think the DuNah would be the best for Thanksgiving.
The same team took the first-ever single-molecule image in 2009 and more recently published images of a molecule shaped like the Olympic rings.
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Spaniards fear that Italy's patchier economy will keep both countries out of the first group to join the single currency.
But beginning next week, "The Bachelorette" will for the first time feature a single mother as the sun in the solar system of suitors.
Worldwide Mini sales broke the 300, 000 threshold for the first time in a single year, with the number of cars sold up by 5.8% to 301, 526 units.
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For example, on "Hush Boy, " the album's first single, Buxton and Ratcliffe teamed up with vocalist Vula Malinga to create the song's melody over a basic track.
Squadron leader Steve Long is the first RAF pilot to fly the single-seat plane.
The Goldman analyst sees LCD glass volumes down 10%-15% sequentially in the first quarter, worse than the single digit decline the Street is expecting.
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