Grant won the election by 300,000 votes out of 5,716,082 votes cast, receiving an electoral college landslide, of 214 votes to Seymour's 80. Elected to public office for the first time, Grant at the age of 46 was, at the time, the youngest president ever elected.
Also important, the constitution would give the EU "legal personality" for the first time, granting it in effect the sole right to negotiate most treaties.
This would not be the first time grants were available to students at two-year colleges; they have been eligible for more than 30 years.
The estate of the playwright August Wilson has, for the first time, granted the rights to record all 10 of his plays about African-American life in the 20th century to New York Public Radio's Jerome L. Greene Performance Space in New York.
"We are very excited to have signed this long term agreement with Dorna Sports, which for the first time grants one publisher worldwide multi-platform rights to the adrenaline fuelled world of MotoGP," said Mark Beaumont, executive vice president, officer and head of Capcom's consumer software publishing in the Americas and Europe.
A few months ago, I bought a computer from MacMall for the first time (granted, I have been a customer for years).
The Court established a landmark decision on Wednesday, for the first time granting to gays, lesbians, bisexuals and their children a full right to equal protection if they are in states in which they can get married.
The law in question — passed in 2008 after Mr. Berlusconi took power for the third time — grants immunity to the prime minister, the Italian president and the two speakers of Parliament while in office.
He obtained his first independent research grant, he said, at 34 a decade younger than the average first-time grant recipient today, according to National Institutes of Health (NIH) figures but he "felt old" compared to many of his counterparts.
Sharply focused on these two issues, which it considers "central to the nation's research efforts that have not received sufficient attention," the report revisits landmarks familiar from earlier studies, such as the rising age of first-time grant winners and of grant winners generally and the sharp increase in soft-money faculty positions.
The success rates for applicants has sunk into the teens, and the average age of first-time grant recipients has risen to 43 years old.
