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We have presidential candidates running for their first term in office at age 68, 69 and 74.

Veiseh can even put a date on when those tapes started recording: 15 December 2000, when he met his first girlfriend at his best friend's 16th birthday party.

Veiseh began to remember the details of his everyday experiences after he met his first young love.

Teamwork improves with time: America's National Transportation Safety Board found that 73% of the incidents in its civil-aviation database occurred on a crew's first day of flying together.

People rarely manage to quit the first time they try.

Only a few months later Leah opened her first yoga studio, but success was not instant.

Leah's first yoga studio was by no means an immediate success.

Highly superior autobiographical memory' ( ' , or HSAM for short), first came to light in the early 2000s, with a young woman named Jill Price.

First trying physical exercise and dieting, she lost some weight and discovered an inner strength.

But in a new study, researchers demonstrated for the first time how this effect occurs in the brain.

The snake has been named silver boa because it is metal-coloured and the first specimen found was climbing a silver palm tree.

That just wasn’t where the scene was, even eating! It was the first time ordinary people started going out to eat.

It is not the first time one of Google’s famed self-driving cars has been involved in a crash, but it may be the first time it has caused one.

Auto makers and tech companies are working hard to offer the first true selfdriving car.

At first, this didn’t bother her.

AliyZircle was the first to report an attack.

The philosophy professor says it is as relevant today as when it was first written many centuries ago.

The first rule—examine your life—is the common thread that runs through the entire book.

She was the first candidate to speak out for strong pre-K programming.

Parents regard it as the first phase of children's development.

At first the researchers of the most recent study found residents in assisted living facilities gave higher scores on social interaction.

It is usually agreed that a German, Karl Benz, built the first motor car in 1885.

In some departments, either the chairman or the director of graduate studies serves for at least the first semester as a new student adviser.

Big fast food chains in New York City have started to obey a first-of-its-kind rule requiring them to post calorie counts right on the menu.

I first began to investigate the basis of human motivation—and how people persevere after setbacks—as a psychology graduate student at Yale University in the 1960s.

I designed an eight-session workshop for 91 students whose math grades were declining in their first year of junior high.

First, a thief is going to need to target your home, specifically.

As a result, their math grades overtook those of the other students by the end of the first semester—and the gap between the two groups continued to widen during the two years we followed them.

As a person who writes about food and drink for a living, I couldn't tell you the first thing about Bill Perry or whether the beers he sells are that great.

Dean Granholm, the vice president for delivery and post office operations, said the first waves of closings would begin this fall.

The first person I told was my mother.

My mother said she would help me with my writing, but first I had to help myself.

For me it took the form of my first, and I hope only, encounter with writer's block—I was not able to produce anything for three years.

First off, it hurts.

These first kites were probably made of wood.

The first test market results surprised even the ConAgra team.

Benjamin ’ s idea was first laughed at.

"highly superior autobiographical memory" or HSAM for short, first came to light in the early 2000s, with a young woman named jill Price.

"What's happened is, because we focused on creating that quality of life first, which enabled the residents to live here, what has probably missed the mark is for companies to locate here," he says.

"When they see that carrier back out on the street," Swigart said, "that's the first sign to them that life is starting to return to normal.

A new study finds that McDonald's posted its slowest drive-through times since this survey was first conducted 15 years ago.

According to the first research to tackle this topic head-on, misnaming the most familiar people in our life is a common cognitive (认知的) error that has to do with how our memories classify and store familiar names.

Aliy zircle was the first to report an attack.

As a person who writes about food and drink for a living, I couldn't tell you the first thing about bill Perry or whether the beers he sells are that great.

At first, the virtual assistant wasn't too great.

At first, this didn't bother her.

At the time of the first interview, at least one of the partners was over the age of 50.

Auto makers and tech companies are working hard to offer the first true self-driving car.

But first we'd better contact Tom and Tracy, and see if they are up for it.

Byun Young-jin chairs the Songdo real estate association and started selling property here when the first phase of the city opened in 2005.

first of all, choose how personal you want to be.

first of all, could you give me your full name?

first trying physical exercise and dieting, she lost some weight and discovered an inner strength.

first, a thief is going to need to target your home, specifically.

first, the body must realize the muscles are damaged.

For me it took the form of my first, and I hope only, encounter with writer's block— I was not able to produce anything for three years.

For most of the first year of life, if something is out of sight, it's out of mind.

France isn't the first country to kick around the idea of paving its roads with solar panels.

He became one of the first modern chefs to focus on the appearance of his table, not just the flavor of his dishes.

his manuals including The Royal Parisian Baker and the massive five-volume Art of French Cooking Series 18-1847, completed after his deat first systematized many basic principles of cooking, complete with drawings and step-by-step directions.

However, this is the first time a panel has been designed to be laid directly on top of existing roads and the first project to install the panels on public highways.

I didn't feel any improvement in my condition in the first couple of days, but after a few more regular visits to the doctor, my cough started to lessen.

I first began to investigate the basis of human motivation— and how people persevere after setbacks—as a psychology graduate student at Yale University in the 1960s.

I mean, it's been two decades, but I can still remember when I got my first real salary.

I thought I'd better get your okay first.

I thought I'd have a word with you first.

I was a little scared at first because he used a smooth edged tool to scrape the skin on my neck and shoulders.

If the investigation uncovers anything, it wouldn't be the first time a telecom provider got into 、trouble over the broadband speeds it promised and delivered customers.

In 1816, Careme began a culinary journey which would forever mark his place as history's first top chef.

In 1958, Britain celebrated the opening of its first motorway—the Preston Bypass.

In 2014, for the first time in more than 1 years, adults aged 18 to were slightly more likely to be living in their parents' home than they were to be living with a spouse or partner in their own household.

In fact, those who first came to have a look did see something.

It is not the first time one of Google's famed self-driving cars has been involved in a crash, but it may be the first time it has caused one.

Late November and December saw early snow and bone-chilling temperatures in much of the country, part of a year when, for the first time in two decades, record-cold days will likely turn out to have outnumbered record-warm ones.

Many patients also gained a better understanding of the illnesses that landed them in the hospital in the first place.

Maybe you can give me a practice interview first!.

McGraw Hill, which controls 21% of the higher education market, reported in March that its digital content sales exceeded print sales for the first time in 2015.

miguel Maeda, 42, who has a master's degree and works in public health,was the first in his family to go to college, which has allowed him to achieve a sense of financial stability his parents and grandparents never did.

Moreover, in order to be curious, you have to be aware of a gap in your knowledge in the first place.

On the first of January, new regulations will come into effect which eliminate an annual leave bonus for people who put off marrying until the age of 23 for women and 25 for men, the South China Morning Post reports.

Restaurant Week starts in just a few days, the first Sunday in May.

Sarina Harper, a 19-year-old student at virginia Tech, was faced with a tough dilemma when she first started college in 2015—pay rent or pay to turn in her chemistry homework.

She didn't hand in her first two assignments for chemistry, which started her out in the class with a failing grade.

She still remembers the sting of her first experience skipping an assignment due to the high prices.

So this is the first time I've ever been paid for a month of full time work.

So when I apologize, I usually choose in-person first, or a phone conversation as my top alternative, and Maybe a handwritten note next.

That just wasn't where the scene was, even eating! It was the first time ordinary people started going out to eat.

That's what—six to eight hundred pounds! So this time I'll need to make a lot more effort and hopefully will be successful the first time.

The average age of first marriage has risen steadily for decades.

The bear first gained fame after it was spotted wandering around neighborhoods and was caught on videos that were posted on social media and shown on national television.

The first is the postponement of, if not retreat from, marriage.

The first person I told was my mother.

The first private mission outside of Earth's orbit is closer than many of us think.

The first rule — examine your life — is the common thread that runs through the entire book.

The man was collecting building materials when the first floor collapsed underneath him.

The man who first imagined Songdo feels frustrated.

The Olympic launched first in 1910, followed by the titanic in 1911, and lastly the Britannic in 1914.

The Vikings' first major discovery occurred in the 9th century.

The world's largest aircraft has taken to the skies for the first time.

They sent me an invitation with a note saying I could take a friend for free on the first day.

The reason is that when carbon is priced, those emissions reductions that are least costly to implement will happen first.

Researchers in Germany used miniature GPS tags to track the migrations of 70 white storks ( ' , 鹳) from different sites across Europe and Asia during the first five months of their lives.

Interest in elite high school math competitions has grown in recent years, and in light of last summer's U.S. win at the International Math Olympiad ( ' , IMO)—the first for an American team in more than two decades— the trend is likely to continue.

Sweden was the first European country to print and use paper money, but it may soon do away with physical currencies.

John, tell us about the first survey.

I remember talking with a young lawyer who was about to begin her first jury trial.

I don’t want them to suspect this is my first trial.

Can you tell us how you first became interested in this subject matter?( ' , 9 ) Wh e n f a c i n g a n e w situation, some people tend to rehearse their defeat by spending too much time anticipating the worst.

And the reality is that antibiotics have been responsible for saving millions of lives since penicillin, one of the earliest antibiotics, was first used on a clinical basis 70 years ago.

About 183.8 million people will shop on Cyber Monday, the first Monday after Thanksgiving.

Thoughts turn first to some sort of global statistic, some indicator which would rate the wealth of nations in both economic and environmental terms and show a relationship between the two.

The protection and improvement of the human environment is a major issue which affects the well-being of peoples and economic development throughout the world, read the final declaration from this gathering, the first of a sequence which would lead to the Rio de Janeiro Earth Summit in 1992 and the World Development Summit in Johannesburg three years ago.

Spending fell by 10% in the first half of the year.

It is also troubling that voting rates among our youngest eligible voters—18- to 24-year-olds—are way down: Little more than one in four now go to the polls, even in national elections, compared with almost twice that many when 18-year-olds were first given the vote.

Frederick's central idea, that stove, sink and kitchen table must be placed in such a relation that useless steps are avoided entirely, inspired the first fully fitted kitchen, designed in the 1920s by Margarete Schütter-Libotsky.

You know, one of the first things I like to tell people when they ask me about the supplements, is that a lot of them are promoted as a cure for your memory, but your memory doesn’t need a cure.

The theory is that smoking should be stripped of any appeal to discourage new generations from starting in the first place.

On a glacier-filled island with fjords ( ' , 峡湾) and elephant seals, Russia has built Antarctica's first Orthodox church on a hill overlooking its research base.

Instead, some in Africa and Asia are seeing their first lightbulbs illuminated by the power of sunlight stored in batteries.

For the first time, the world's nations agreed to keep global warming well below 2 ℃.

Fitbit, for example, released its first smartwatch Monday, selling with a clear purpose – to improve your fitness – and promoting it as a tool, not a toy.

117 With Russia's help, Belarus is preparing to build its first Antarctic base.

Devils Tower, the first national monument in America, could almost be mistaken for the stump of an enormous tree.

When Nijay Williams entered college last fall as a first-generation student and Jamaican immigrant, he was academically unprepared for the rigors of higher education.

What Nijay didn't realize about his school—Tennessee State University — was its frighteningly low graduation rate: a mere 29 percent for its first-generation students.

The graduation rate of first-generation students at Nijay's university was incredibly low.

The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, for instance, admits only that the graduation rate for its first-generation pupils is much lower than the percentage of all students who graduate within four years ( ' , 81 percent).

That is because the engineers, designers, regulators, operators, and all of the other skilled people needed for the new energy industry are specialists who have to be trained first ( ' , or retrained, if they are the ones being laid off in some related industry), and education, like any other complicated endeavor, takes times.

That helps explain why, as I'm First's Rubinoff indicated, the schools to which these students end up resorting can end up being some of the poorest matches for them.

Tennessee State's overall graduation rate is a tiny 39 percent, but at least it has a smaller gap between the outcomes for first-generation students and those of their peers.

Students are placed in small groups with counselors ( ' , trained seniors on campus); they have access to cultural and ethnic affinity ( ' , 联系 ) groups, tutoring centers and also have a summer orientation specifically for first-generation students ( ' , the latter being one of the most common programs for students).

Still, Jones represents a small percentage of first-generation students who are able to gain entry into more elite universities, which are often known for robust financial aid packages and remarkably high graduation rates for first-generation students.

Some top institutions like Yale seem to provide first-generation students with more support than they actually need.

Some elite universities attach great importance to building up the first-generation student's self-confidence.

She is expecting up to 20 people at the first meeting she has called, at her local pub in the Cornish village of Polperro.

Nijay represents a large and growing group of Americans: first-generation college students who enter school unprepared or behind.

Nearly three-quarters of the first group guessed that Mr.

Matt Rubinoff directs I'm First, a nonprofit organization launched last October to reach out to this specific population of students.

Many universities simply refuse to release their exact graduation rates for first-generation students.

Many first-generation college-goers have doubts about their abilities to get a college degree.

Like many first-generation students, he enrolled in a medium-sized state university many of his high school peers were also attending, received a Pell Grant, and took out some small federal loans to cover other costs.

Kids who are the first in their families to brave the world of higher education came on campus with little academic know- how and are much more likely than their peers to drop out before graduation.

It's not only the selective and elite institutions that provide those opportunities for a small subset of this population, Rubinoff said, adding that a majority of first-generation undergraduates tend toward options such as online programs, two-year colleges, and commuter state schools.

It was this lack of information that prompted the launch of I'm First in 2013, originally as an arm of its umbrella organization, the Center For Student Opportunity.

It is the first to launch suborbital flights.

I'm First distributes information to help first-generation college-goers find schools that are most suitable for them.

Howard, a well-regarded historically black college, had an array of resources for its first-generation students, including matching kids with counselors, connecting first-generation students to one another, and TRIO, a national program that supported 200 students on Howard's campus.

Higher education institutions are, under federal law, required to report graduation rates, but these reports typically only include Pell recipient number—not necessarily rates specific to first-generation students.

First generation college students tend to have much heavier financial burdens than their peers.

Elite universities tend to graduate first-generation students at a higher rate.

Chelsea Jones, who now directs student programming at I'm First, was a first-generation college student at Howard.

But more recently, companies have begun to plan more affordable After being dogged by technical delays for years, Sir Richard Branson, Virgin Galactic's founder, had recently suggested that a SpaceShipTwo craft would carry its first paying customers as soon as February 2015.

At the end of his first year, Nijay lost his Pell Grant of over $5,000 after narrowly missing the 2.

A flagship university in the South, the school graduates just 16 percent of its first-generation students, despite its overall graduation rate of 71 percent.

( ' , Harvard, for example, boasts a six-year graduation rate for underrepresented minority groups of 98 percent)Christian Vazquez, a first-generation Yale graduate, is another exception, his success story setting him far apart from students such as Nijay.

"The protection and improvement of the human environment is a major issue which affects the well-being of peoples and economic development throughout the world," read the final declaration from this gathering, the first of a sequence which would lead to t

After all, students making their own choices in this respect is what caused the problem in the first place.

After being dogged by technical delays for years, sir Richard Branson, virgin Galactic's founder, had recently suggested that a Spaceship Two craft would carry its first paying customers as soon as February 2015.

After conducting extensive research in which he studied the festivals of many African groups of people, he decided that the new holiday should be a harvest or "first fruits" celebration, incorporating ideas from many different harvest traditions.

After the first pair of tasks was completed, one group of participants was assigned an undemanding activity intended to cause their minds to wander.

And his home city of Sacramento, California should see the technology's first test.

And Sainz Breeze is the first UK supermarket to stock the company's crunchy roasted crickets.

And she criticizes me in exactly the same way she did when I was first unpublished and I was starting.

And with it, I was able to print the first garment, a red Jacket that had the word "Freedom" embedded into it.

As the plant dries, these resources take on first the properties of honey, then rubber, and finally enter a glass-like state that is the most stable state that the plant can maintain, Farrant says.

At first, Rosen bought groceries and made house payments with the help from unemployment insurance.

At the end of his first year, Nijay lost his Pell Grant of over $5,000 after narrowly missing the 2.0 GPA cut-off, making it impossible for him to continue paying for school.

But a recent study seems to point to the fact that when matter and anti-matter were first created, there were slightly more particles of matter, which allowed the universe we all live in to form?

But I can never forget the first speech of thanks I did.

But she says nations will not make progress fighting hunger and poverty until they begin to focus on those critical first thousand days.

But the first bite was a pleasant surprise, a little dry and lacking of taste, but at least a wing didn't get stuck in my throat.

Can you tell us how you first became interested in this subject matter?

Chelsea Jones, who now directs student programming at I'm first, was a first-generation college student at Howard.

Eat Grub is Britain's first new food company that breaks western food boundaries by introducing edible insects as a new source of food.

Efforts like painting eyes on cow butts may seem crazy at first, but they could make actual headway in the fight for conservation.

Families with modest incomes should ensure the breadwinner or breadwinners first.

first of all, small is beautiful: people definitely prefer working for smaller organizations or companies with less than 100 staff.

first, keeping up with the pace of technological change; recruiting high-quality staff in a time of skills shortages in it as a whole and in a highly competitive market; and the issue of retaining staff once they've been recruited and trained.

first, people are living longer with a lot more complex needs.

first, the earthquake would shake metropolitan areas including Seattle and Portland.

first, they explain that if a given variable is playing a role in affecting well-being, then we should expect any change in that variable to correlate with the observed changes in well-being.

kids who are the first in their families to brave the world of higher education came on campus with little academic know-how and are much more likely than their peers to drop out before graduation.

For other companies interested in reducing waste, helping the environment, and providing the sustainable lifestyles that consumers seek, here are some first steps for building a relationship with customers that focuses on recycling and restoring value to

Frederick's central idea, that "stove, sink and kitchen table must be placed in such a relation that useless steps are avoided entirely", inspired the first fully fitted kitchen,designed in the 1920s by Margarete Schütter-Libotsky.

When a tree first starts growing in a certain area, it's likely that the 27 climatic envelope—the temperature, humidity, rainfall patterns and so on—suits it.

his first partnership was with Paul and Phyllis Amburgh, owners of the Dharma Lea farm in New York.

I asked the lawyer again how she wanted to appear at her first trial.

I don't want them to suspect this is my first trial.

If we want to fix the problem of the income gap, first we have to understand it.

In the first study, three-year-olds watch two videos shown side by side.

In the same plate, Merian depicted and described leaf-cutter ants for the first time.

It continued the efforts, begun in 1961, by Project OSCAR—a US-based group that built and launched the very first nongovernmental satellite just four years after Sputnik.

It is also troubling that voting rates among our youngest eligible voters—18- to 24-yearolds— are way down: little more than one in four now go to the polls, even in national elections, compared with almost twice that many when 18-year-olds were first giv

It isn't, however, the first time it has ever been seen.

It was this lack of information that prompted the launch of I'm first in 2013, originally as an arm of its umbrella organization, the Center For Student Opportunity.

Kwanzaa is a Kiswahili word meaning "the first fruits of the harvest".

Ludacris and the former CEO of Bank of America Ken Lewis are alumni of my college, as well as VICE's first female editor-in-chief, Ellis Jones.

Matt Rubinoff directs I'm first, a nonprofit organization launched last October to reach out to this specific population of students.

Maybe you see low customer participation at first, or conversely, so much success that the cost of recycling becomes too high.

More than 20 years after the internet was opened to commerce, the Census Bureau tells us that brick and mortar sales accounted for 92.3 percent of retail sales in the first quarter of 2016.

A good first impression increases sales.

A grasp of how to manage color in your spaces is one of the first steps to creating rooms you'll love to live in.

A month before my first marathon, one of my ankles was injured and this meant not running for two weeks, leaving me only two weeks to train.

A recent trend has been to encourage employees to use their own initiative, to make decisions on their own without asking managers first.

After boats began flying special flags noting the inspector was aboard, the keeper's family made it a game to see who could notice the boat first.

After her mother read the poem to her, the writer felt sad at first.

After reading some history books on how the first group of Chinese immigrants survived in America of the 19th century, she has become keen on her own family history and that of others.

Afterwards, she and her father secured their first business meeting with a supermarket owner, who finally agreed to sell Moore's product—cancandy.

As a first-year, I was afraid to make any noise towards campus issues that I noticed.

At college, Barack Obama didn't know that he was to become the first black president of the united states of America.

At first Robert wouldn't let his daughter go diving, but eventually he gave in as she was so confidence about her skills.

At first the price of single copies was seldom a penny-usually two or three cents was charged-and some of the older well-known papers charged five or six cents.

At first, john spent his time hunting for fun.

At last I ended up hitting the set with my first, and it stopped working altogether.

At the Beijing Olympic she swept away any doubts about her ability to perform consistently by becoming the first Jamaican woman ever to win the 100 metres Olympic gold.

Building owners were faced with a choice: either change the first floors of their buildings into basements, and the second stories into main floors, or hoist the entire buildings to meet the new street level.

But I will have to ask my friend first and we will come together.

But my connection with pandas goes back to my days on a TV show in the mid-1980s, when I was the first western TV reporter permitted to film a special unit caring for pandas rescued from starvation in the wild.

But Steve pressed on, playing for the first time in his life for a stranger.

But with these tips, your first man-on-the-street interview experience can be easy.

By the end of the first chapter, requests were coming from the back seat: "Please read a little louder."

In my first P.E. Class, the teacher required us to run laps and then hit a softball.

During my first quarter at university of California, riverside ucr, I thought that I wanted to study political science with its focus on international affairs, so that's what I applied for.

During my first quarter, I spoke directly to the chancellor, asking him for support towards my initiatives, met with the vice chancellors.

During the first week of his stay, he went out one day to do some shopping.

During the first week, do not think about distance, but run five minutes longer each day.

On February 5, submit a first draft of your essay, performance script, or documentary highlights.

First celebrated in 1970, the day now includes events in more than 190 countries and regions.

First, consider something as simple as sleep.

First, it's the dead line for after class activity application.

First of all, uniforms help the school look smart.

First of all, you must wear shoes that cover your feet in the lab.

First they collected sound data from 67 nests in four sites in queensland before and after hatching.

First, clean it and season it with your choice of spices.

First, decide to do it for yourself and work towards staying positive.

First, I want to get a job as a computer programmer, and then after five years or so, I'd like to start my own business.

First, sport programs can provide youth with opportunities to be physically active, which can lead to improved physical health.

First, understand that some opportunities for daydreaming are better than others.

First, we decided to buy the resources.

For example, stores place fruits and vegetables in the first section.

For example, the first letters of "my elephant eats too many eels" spell out the hidden message "meet me".

For the first time, I feel good about myself because I'm doing something, not because someone told me I was doing good.

Frank Hurley's pictures would be outstanding―undoubtedly first-rate photo-journalism―if they had been made last week.

From day two everyone wanted to walk the cute puppy that first day, neither thought to walk the dog.

Gene was thrilled, thinking he would make his first fortune.

Has it changed since your first record?

He is the first Chinese citizen to win this award.

He likes that he can sit and check his phone in peace or chat up the barkeeper with whom he's on a first-name basis if he wants to have a little interaction.

He stood by the piano, eyes closed, listening for the first time to his own work being played by someone else.

Her mother Maxime, one of a family of fourteen, had been an athlete herself as a young girl but, like so many other girls in Waterhouse, had to stop after she had her first baby.

Here I learned my first important lesson: disabled as I was in language, I could still be smart and well express myself with clay.

Here is a graph that charts how far a bird flies during the first five days of its spring migration see graph 2.

His first boss's sales ideas reasonable.

How much can a new person for the first year?

How was the author's first marathon?

However, if this is not available, students sit the exam on the first Monday of their course.

I first met Paul Newman in 1968, when George Roy Hill, the director of Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, introduced us in New York city.

I had recently had a beagle, the first and only animal companion I ever had as a child.

I had the chance of seeing this first hand on a weekend.

I had the same doubt at first.

I must have always known reading was very important because the first memories I have as a child deal with books.

I ran into Rani's office for the first time.

I tried to hold off at first, I played it cool for a short while.

I won't be surprised if you win the first prize.

If producers are required to take back packaging they use to sell their products, would they reduce the packaging in the first place?

If they tell you otherwise, they're lying and will probably change what they want to purse within the first quarter of attendance.

In 1863 the first underground passenger railway in the world opened in London.

In 1870, when Dickens died, the world mourned him as its first professional writer and publisher, famous and beloved.

In fact, I got the same medal as the one that the guy who came in first place had.

In high school, I became curious about the computer, and built my first website.

In his first years of high school, Gabriel would look pityingly at music students, struggling across the campus with their heavy instrument cases.

In the context of this discussion, it seems valuable to first find out the cause of change in the case of parents' involvement with their grown children.

In the first experiment, they gave people 40 unimportant facts to type into a computer.

In the first move of its kind, all travelers will be forced to stand on both sides of escalators on the London underground as part of a plan to increase capacity at the height of the rush hour.

We are likely to make small talk when we first meet people.

It appeared on some of the first postcards, starred in some of the earliest silent movies, and was the subject of a couple of the earliest photos, dating all the way back to the 1800s.

It didn't look that bad, and after the first wave had shut down my ability to smell, it didn't offend the nose so much, either.

It is said that body language accounts for 55 percent of a first impression while what you say just 7 percent.

It was when I got back to my apartment that I first came across my new neighbors.

It's been three weeks since he first started going, so macy and I are pretty used to it now.

Joe Simpson and Simon Yates were the first people to climb the west face of the siula grande in the andes mountains.

Later they all admitted they'd felt cold water at first.

Many scientists suspect workers first would have put the blocks on sleds.

Maybe the first plant just made a cry of pain or was sending a message to its own branches, and so, in effect, was talking to itself.

Most colleges now offer first-year students a course specially designed to help them succeed academically and personally.

My fiance and I were excited about shopping for our first home.

News of the first kind pays its rewards at once.

Of the first 20, 000 people who dug for gold, 4, 000 got rich.

Oh, you get one day per month in your first year.

Okay, but let me finish my chemistry homework first.

On the first day of my first grade, I stood by the door with butterflies in my stomach.

One of his first findings was that articles in the science section were much more likely to make the list than non-science articles.

One of the first things maxime used to do with Shelly-Ann was taking her to the track, and she was ready to sacrifice everything.

People had been writing novels for a century—most experts date the first novel to Robinson Crusoe in 1719—but nobody wanted to do it professionally.

People in the first group knew they could find the information again, so they did not try to remember it.

Recovery and reconstruction should come first.

Said Monday that its new flying car has completed its first flight, bringing the company closer to its goal of selling the flying car within the next year.

She became an arizona state senator and , in 1981, the first woman to join the u.

She coughed and choked and could hardly survive her first few weeks.

She encouraged a sense of community社区 by creating shelters and promoting education and services for people in need in 1931, addams became the first American woman to win the nobel peace prize.

sexual confusion, economic frustrations , and religious hope-all name together in a decisive moment when he opened the Bible, told his father the first line he saw would settle his fate, and read the magical words:.

More than 60,000 people have purchased the PTKs since they first become available without prescriptions last years, according to Doug Fog, chief operating officer of Identigene, which makes the over-the-counter kits.

Ironically, the first evidence for this idea appeared in the United States.

At puberty, however, the brain shuts down half of that capacity, preserving only those modes of thought that have seemed most valuable during the first decade or so of life.

The first and more important is the consumer's growing preference for eating out: the consumption of food and drink in places other than homes has risen from about 32 percent of total consumption in 1995 to 35 percent in 2000 and is expected to approach 38 percent by 2005.

Now the nation's top patent court appears completely ready to scale back on business-method patents, which have been controversial ever since they were first authorized 10 years ago.

He was knighted in 1967, the first music critic to be so honored.

Within two weeks, he was talking for the first time with the board of Hartford Financial Services Group, which named him CEO and chairman on September 29.

Says Korn/Ferry senior partner Dennis Carey:”I can’t think of a single search I’ve done where a board has not instructed me to look at sitting CEOs first.

If Gilbert and the Philharmonic are to succeed, they must first change the relationship between America’s oldest orchestra and the new audience it hops to attract.

As the first signs of recovery begin to take hold, deputy chiefs may be more willing to make the jump without a net.

The networked computer offers the first chance in 50 years to reverse the flow, to encourage thoughtful downloading and, even more importantly, meaningful uploading.

The networked computer is an amazing device, the first media machine that serves as the mode of production, means of distribution, site of reception, and place of praise and critique.

First, they can shut things down without suffering much in the way of consequences.

First, scientific work tends to focus on some aspect of prevailing Knowledge that is viewed as incomplete or incorrect.

First, most people do not realise that there are strong commercial agendas at work to keep them in passive consumption mode.

But as Cline is the first to note, it took Beaumont decades to perfect her craft; her example can’t be knocked off.

“We’re doing these things because we know they help people stay off benefits and help those on benefits get into work faster” Help? Really? On first hearing, this was the socially concerned chancellor, trying to change lives for the better, complete with “reforms” to an obviously indulgent system that demands too little effort from the newly unemployed to find work, and subsidises laziness.

“Those first few days should be spent looking for work, not looking to sign on,” he claimed.

First, most researchers would accept such a prize if they were offered one.

But in Osborneland, your first instinct is to fall into dependency—permanent dependency if you can get it—supported by a state only too ready to indulge your falsehood.

These changes were gradual and at first scarcely visible.

The first shiploads of immigrants bound for the territory which is now the United States crossed the Atlantic more than a hundred years after the 15th- and 16th-century explorations of North America.

The colonists’ first glimpse of the new land was a sight of dense woods.

Vaux says that Science’s idea to pass some papers to statisticians “has some merit, but a weakness is that it relies on the board of reviewing editors to identify ‘the papers that need scrutiny’ in the first place”.

This is especially true in first impressions.

For the first time in history more people live in towns than in the country.

First, consumers may take CSR spending as a “signal” that a company’s products are of high quality.

The same curiosity to find what lies beyond the horizon that first brought early Polynesians to Hawaii’s shores inspires astronomers today to explore the heavens.

The first published sketch, “A Dinner at Poplar Walk” brought tears to Dickens’s eyes when he discovered it in the pages of The Monthly Magazine.

The comic novel, The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club, appeared serially in 1836 and 1837, and was first published in book form in 1837.

First two hours , now three hours—this is how far in advance authorities are recommending people show up to catch a domestic flight , at least at some major U.airports with increasingly massive security lines.

After the first installment, Dickens wrote to the artist and asked him to correct a drawing Dickens felt was not faithful enough to his prose.

When Shakespeare was twelve years old, the first public playhouse was built in London.

These new forms were at first mainly written by scholars and performed by amateurs, but in England, as everywhere else in western Europe, the growth of a class of professional actors was threatening to make the drama popular, whether it should be new or old, classical or medieval, literary or farcical.

The first step, as Erik Brynjolfsson and Andrew McAfee argue in The Second MachineAge, should be rethinking education and job training.

The first executive offices were constructed between 1799 and 1820.

The State, War, and Navy Building, as it was originally known, housed the three Executive Branch Departments most intimately associated with formulating and conducting the nation's foreign policy in the last quarter of the nineteenth century and the first quarter of the twentieth century-the period when the United States emerged as an international power.

Fundamentally, the USPS is in a historic squeeze between technological change that has permanently decreased demand for its bread-and-butter product, first-class mail, and a regulatory structure that denies management the flexibility to adjust its operations to the new reality.

Completed in 1875, the State Department's south wing was the first to be occupied, with its elegant four-story library ( ' , completed in 1876), Diplomatic Reception Room, and Secretary's office decorated with carved wood, Oriental rugs, and stenciled wall patterns.

"The first thing needed for innovation is a fascination with wonder," says Dawna Markova, author of "The Open mind".

"Those first few days should be spent looking for work, not looking to sign on," he claimed.

Although women first served on state juries in Utah in 1898,It was not until the 1940s that a majority of states made women eligible for jury duty.

And yet, John Hagel, author of The Power of Pull and other books, says Brynjolfsson and McAfee miss the reason why these jobs are so vulnerable to technology in the first place.

At first glance this might seem like a strength that grants the ability to make judgments which are unbiased by external factors.

At the end of adolescence, however, the brain shuts down half of that capacity, preserving only those modes of thought that have seemed most valuable during the first decade or so of life.

But as Cline is the first to note, it took Beaumont decades to perfect her craft; her example can't be knocked off.

Completed in 1875, the State Department's south wing was the first to be occupied, with its elegant four-story library, diplomatic Reception Room, and Secretary's office decorated with carved wood, Oriental rugs, and stenciled wall patterns.

first generation was defined as not having a parent with a four-year college degree.

first two hours, now three hours一this is how far in advance authorities are recommending people show up to catch a domestic flight, at least at some major U.S. airports with increasingly massive security lines.

first, consumers may take CSR spending as a "signal" that a company's products are of high quality.

first, it is very expensive to set up the computer, card reader, and telecommunications networks necessary to make electronic money the dominant form of payment.

first, most people do not realise that there are strong commercial agendas at work to keep them in passive consumption mode.

first, most researchers would accept such a prize if they were offered one.

first, scientific work tends to focus on some aspect of prevailing knowledge that is viewed as incomplete or incorrect.

first, they can shut things down without suffering much in the way of consequences.

He was knighted in1967, the first music critic to be so honored.

Here are five simple ways that you can make the first move and start a conversation with strangers.

I found, as Hacker observed years before, that most wives want their husbands to be, first and foremost, conversational partners, but few husbands share this expectation of their wives.

I truly believe that once you get that first word out everything else will just flow.

If Gilbert and the Philharmonic are to succeed, they must first change the relationship between America's oldest orchestra and the new audience it hopes to attract.

In 2015, the US Forest Service for the first time spent more than half of its $5.5 billion annual budget fighting fires——nearly double the percentage it spent on such efforts 20 years ago.

In March, for the first time, wind and solar power accounted for more than 10 percent of the power generated in the US, reported the US Energy Information Administration.

It is the first worldwide epidemic designated by the World Health Organization in 41 years.

It was not until the mid-1980s, when amplifying age and sex differences became a dominant children's marketing strategy, that pink fully came into its own, when it began to seem inherently attractive to girls, part of what defined them as female, at least

It's his first week on the job.

More than 60,000 people have purchased the PTKs since they first became available without prescriptions last year, according to Doug Fogg, chief operating officer of Identigene, which makes the over-the-counter kits.

Now the nation's top patent court appears completely ready to scale back on business-method patents, which have been controversial ever since they were first authorized I0 years ago.

Now, a new Web-based company has taken it a step further and developed the first "brain training program" designed to actually help people improve and regain their mental sharpness.

On first hearing, this was the socially concerned chancellor, trying to change lives for the better, complete with "reforms" to an obviously indulgent system that demands too little effort from the newly unemployed to find work, and subsidises laziness.

Seven months and one election day later, a new conservative city council suspended enforcement of the clean air zone, a first step toward its possible demise.

The bills are similar to a measure recently adopted in California, which last year became the first state to require gender quotas for private companies.

The first and more important is the consumer's growing preference for eating out: the consumption of food and drink in places other than homes has risen from about 32 percent of total consumption in 1995 to 35 percent in 2000and is expected to approach 38

The first published sketch, "A dinner at Poplar Walk" brought tears to Dickens'eyes when he discovered it in the pages of The Monthly Magazine.

The first step, as Erik Brynjolfsson and Andrew MeAfee argue in The Second Machine Age, should be rethinking education and job training.

The networked computer offers the first chance in 50 years to reverse the flow, to encourage thoughtful downloading and, even more importantly, meaningful uploading.

The outbreak of swine flu that was first detected in Mexico was declared a global epidemic on June 11, 2009.

The phrase "less is more" was actually first popularized by a German, the architect Ludwig mies van der Rohe, who like other people associated with the Bauhaus, a school of design, emigrated to the United States before World War II and took up posts at Am

The same curiosity to find what lies beyond the horizon that first brought early Polynesians to Hawaii's shores inspires astronomers today to explore the heavens.

The State, War, and Navy Building, as it was originally known, housed the three Executive Branch Departments most intimately associated with formulating and conducting the nation's foreign policy in the last quarter of the nineteenth century and the first

This aversion to arguments is common, but it depends on a mistaken view of arguments that causes profound problems for our personal and social lives- and in many ways misses the point of arguing in the first place.

Vaux says that Science's idea to pass some papers to statisticians "has some merit, but a weakness is that it relies on the board of reviewing editors to identify ‘the papers that need scrutiny'in the first place".

When the recovery began, worker shortages first appeared in the high-skilled trades.

When this practice first started decades ago, it was usually limited to freshmen, to give them a second chance to take a class in their first year if they struggled in their transition to college-level courses.

When you meet a person for the first time, make an effort to find the things which you and that person have in common so that you can build the conversation from that point.

within two weeks, he was talking for the first time with the board of Hartford financial Services Group, which named him CEO and chairman on September 29.

Workers tended to be diligent for the first few days of the week in any case, before hitting a plateau and then slackening off.

You all came into a conversation where you first met the person, but after some time you may have met again and have forgotten their name.

You wanted to say something—the first word—but it just won't come out, it feels like it is stuck somewhere.