After all, the E.C.B.'s main interest rate is 0.5 percent and back in July the central bank said, in its first experiment with "forward guidance," that it expected interest rates to "remain at present or lower levels for an extended period of time".
In its first experiment with making money, Tinder said Thursday that it would charge its mostly millennial users for special features through a subscription plan called Tinder Plus.
"Nothing has changed!" they shouted the other day, and their complaint has become a theme for critics -- both foreign and Timorese -- as the United Nations passes the six-month mark in its first experiment in building a new nation.
James Sumner of Leyland, Lancashire, built his first steam-driven wagon in 1884; and in 1896 he allied with the wealthy Spurrier family to set up the Lancashire Steam Motor Company, renamed Leyland Motors Ltd. in 1907, after its first experiments with gasoline engines.
In hopes of luring in fresh audiences, Facebook Paper announced its first experiment in working with an outside group to populate the Ideas section of its stylized content reader standalone app.
With most votes counted, the results suggested that, one year after Britain embarked on its first experiment in rule by coalition since World War II, the fraying alliance between the Liberal Democrats and the dominant Conservatives would survive — just — but that its tone would be markedly more combative.
The tiny seven-person firm would ultimately have to choose one or two markets, but in its first few months of life it experimented with all three.
Now the media company is launching its second experiment in this vein, this time taking viewers to the FIS Alpine World Ski Championships in Vail, Colorado.
It has been a year since Scotland embarked on a bold democratic experiment, swearing in its first England-free Parliament in almost 300 years and getting to run its own affairs when it comes to things like education and health.
In Rio de Janeiro a populist governor brought in a law obliging the main state university to reserve 40% of its places for blacks and half for graduates of state high schools (which, unlike state universities, are for common folk).The experiment, now in its first year, has had mixed results.
