· If a customer exceeds the allowance a second time, we'll notify them and provide a grace period.
"The first time limits are exceeded we are quite liberal," Versloot told me.
The first time he exceeded that limit was in 1998, but only by a few.
Last year, for the first time, they exceeded the cost of Medicare, the federal programme for the old.
Aksys, which cut a deal with Mr. Sacane in April, the first time he exceeded the poison pill threshold, is trying to decide what action to take.
But the IAB says digital ad spending crossed a particularly noteworthy milestone last year — for the first time, digital exceeded the total amount spent on broadcast and cable TV ads ($70.1 billion).
If anything, the technical unknowns of going into space for the first time greatly exceeded the challenges of working under water, which at lesser depths has a history of almost 100 years.
More than a decade later, that strategy appears to have produced dividends: The latest PISA results show that for the first time Germany exceeded the OECD average in all disciplines (math, reading and science).
The financial results speak for themselves: Sales at LVMH rose 19 percent last year and, for the first time, exceeded 20 billion euros.
On Tuesday, the number of national guardsmen and reservists mobilized since Sept. 11 for the first time exceeded 50,000 -- the loose figure Secretary Rumsfeld initially told Mr. Bush would be enough.
