Even then, the first approach was troubling, they said.
Narcolepsy and cataplexy were both first described in the 1880s – and even then the first case of the latter, discovered by German doctor Carl Westphal, was a family problem, shared by a mother and son.
Even then, the first efforts are likely to be modest, says Lewicki. "Gold mining didn't start as a massive industrial operation with complicated machinery and complex supply chains," he says.
Of the proposals for new construction, the most likely one was a line that would extend from Sacramento, the capital of California, 800 miles (1,300 km) south through San Francisco and Los Angeles to San Diego, close to the border with Mexico though even then the first major portion, between San Francisco and Los Angeles, would not be finished before 2020.
Even then, the First Virtual system does not offer all the advantages of real digital cash: its fees are too high for truly tiny sales (29 cents for each transaction, plus 2% of its total value)—unless the merchant himself goes to the trouble of combining many little purchases.
It wasn't until the early 19th century that anyone in the Church had any notion that Mary had once lived near Ephesus, and even then the first reports of the house came from a dubious source: the feverish visions of a bedridden German nun named Sister Anne Catherine Emmerich.
Even then, the first deals with McDonald's were for local markets, in Chicago and North Carolina; they involved modest sums, and a lot of skepticism about whether a broad-based nonathletic brand could really be boosted by a black athlete — and a team athlete at that.
Eidams was matching Van Gerwen, whose levels had not dipped significantly, blow for blow and took the match to a decider, where even then the underdog split the first four legs.
They may have been thwarted by July rain in Bangladesh but even then the home side had the first-innings advantage in the first game in Chittagong.
Even then, the maximum penalty for first-time violators of competition rules was 85m pesos ($7.3m)—"not even peanuts, but plankton," one prosecutor admits.
