Alistair Darling will have to cross a picket line today as civil servants stage their first ever budget-day strike in a bitter row over redundancy pay.
It was largely because of his prudent macroeconomics that government debt was slashed (from 48% of GDP in 1994 to 31% in 2007) and that South Africa achieved its first-ever budget surplus in 2007-08.
Last year, the town of Vail did away with 10 jobs in its first-ever budget cuts, and Snowmass Village, the biggest resort at Aspen, was forced to cut capital spending.
President Obama signaled his commitment to medically accurate sex education by including it in his first-ever budget outline.
Occupy Chicago protesters were also on hand for a sit-in lasting several hours at Chicago's City Hall on the eve of Mayor Rahm Emanuel's first-ever budget being unanimously approved by the City Council Wednesday.
"Setting the first ever carbon budgets is a ground-breaking step - but the government has ignored the latest advice from leading climate scientists and set targets that are completely inadequate," said Andy Atkins, the organisation's executive director.
"Setting the first ever carbon budgets is a ground-breaking step - but the government has ignored the latest advice from leading climate scientists and set targets that are completely inadequate," said Andy Atkins, executive director of Friends of the Earth, which led a mass public petition for the Climate Change Act which created them.
The 43-year-old actor stars in Ubisoft's first ever big-budget, live-action commercial for the video game Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six Siege, out Dec. 1.
Festival promoters know this well, so when CRSSD, a spin-off of FNGRS CRSSD (a sister brand of LED Events) and Goldenvoice planned its first ever festival last month, it budgeted for some potential damages to the festival grounds, San Diego's Waterfront Park.
In the end, agreement was reached on the first-ever EU budget cut, from €994 billion ($1.31 trillion) for the current seven-year period to €960 billion ($1.27 trillion) for the next seven years, as Germany had demanded.
