As the saying goes, the first step toward recovery is to acknowledge the problem.
Robust, unbiased data are the first step toward addressing our long-term economic needs and key policy priorities.
Kyoto presented the first step toward creating a carbon market that Enron desperately wanted Congress to support.
The first step toward knowing my worth was the willingness to feel uncomfortable.
Improving visibility, the first step toward energy management, is easier said than done.
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Recognizing mediocre elements in your world is the first step toward improving them.
The first step toward attentively reading and fully appreciating comics is acknowledging that.
The first step toward breaking out of this dysfunctional corporate culture, he says, is claiming control over your life.
But many analysts see this week's hostage releases as the first step toward an eventual peace accord with the government.
That's the first step toward booting him and adopting a sensible plan for developing the country's enormous heavy oil reserves.
It means people are talking about the issue, and that's the first step toward learning how to reasonably protect yourself.
What spending cuts of this magnitude would really mean is Congress has taken just the first step toward restoring fiscal sanity.
Or find some other way of making the ideas visible, which is the first step toward getting a handle on them.
The first step toward that reaffirmation is to acknowledge all the evidence and causative analysis that observers like Davidoff can marshal.
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An exploratory committee is seen as the first step toward a formal candidacy, allowing candidates to raise money and fund campaign trips.
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The first step toward accomplishing this is to end the over-subsidization of higher education, which creates incentives for many to postpone work.
But you and I know that a temporary fix is only the first step toward meeting our challenges and solving our problems.
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This will be the first step toward restoring the confidence that the country needs if it is to start a better day.
However, the first step toward a real economic and employment recovery is to get clear on what works and what does not.
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But there are troubling signs that the review is the first step toward watering down or doing away with crucial parts of the survey.
Hong Kong Telecom plans to bring the world's first commercial video-on-demand service to the territory this year, the first step toward full-scale interactive television.
The search giant has launched an online tool breaking down the figures which it hopes will be "just the first step toward increased transparency".
"We hope that Molly's story is the first step toward changing how families can choose where their loved one's organs are allocated, " Jennifer Flood said.
Many analysts see this unilateral act by the FARC as the first step toward an eventual peace accord with the government of President Alvaro Uribe.
Yet these aides also say Bush is not about to forget, and they insist it is not his responsibility to take the first step toward mending fences.
This is the first step toward self-control, and if self-control ever catches on, perhaps your next audience will take their eyes off their CrackBerries and focus on you.
The agreement establishes a 29-member interim cabinet headed by Karzai, meant as the first step toward a broad-based government representing the range of Afghanistan's ethnic groups and regions.
By making his retirement official this week, Shaq took the first step toward his next challenge, a much tougher one: becoming one of the great retired athlete marketers.
Maybe Kickstarter represents the first step toward patching things up.
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It opened on March 1, and is the first step toward putting Kate Spade Saturday on the international fashion map, alongside its chic mother, Kate Spade New York.
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