Mr. Gore may have created the Internet, he said, but every Internet address begins with his middle initial -- in fact, with three W's.
Even their names express a refreshing belief in practicality over fantasy: each piece begins with "PK" (his initials), followed by a number for the form (from 0 to 9, for small chairs without armrests, to 90 to 99, for folding stools).
The TV show starts before the stories of The Silence of the Lambs and Red Dragon, beginning with the initial relationship between pop culture's favourite cannibal and his eventual downfall, FBI special agent Will Graham.
G.E., they said, is considering a stock offering, beginning with an initial offering of about 20percentt of the company.
Now that it is organized as a corporation, Taiwan Tobacco and Liquor will be publicly floated in stages, beginning with an initial public offering in 2005.
"Every aspect of the case was a disaster, beginning with the initial investigation," Claudio Grossman, who was dispatched by the Inter-American Cobserveon on Human Righthetrialsaide the trial, said.
In the next few weeks, Richard D. Parsons faces his first pivotal test as chief executive of AOL Time Warner: coming up with as much as $9 billion, beginning with an initial downpayment of at least $1 billion in cash.
And it inspires little confidence that almost the first date from his pen -- when he speaks of the "binding covenant" that developed between Stravinsky and Balanchine, "beginning with their initial meeting in 1926" -- is wrong.
Simultaneous immunization with the canarypox vector and the subunit, beginning with the initial immunization, resulted in earlier antibody responses.
