The two guiding principles for ensuring data quality that were vigorously adhered to during the inaugural fielding of the Medicare Health Outcomes Survey were standardization and simplicity.
In the meantime, beginning on the day of Obama's first inaugural, the Secret Service fielded an unprecedented number of threats against the President's person.
The couple's first big field trip was their voyage to China in 1937 on one of the inaugural Pan Am Clipper flights.
The inaugural installation, "Depth of Field: Modern Photography at the Metropolitan," a sampler rather than a thematic slice, makes the Met's priorities clear.
The inaugural breakthrough in the field of hearing restoration occurred in the late nineteen-eighties, when two researchers discovered, independently, that the ears of young chickens do something that human ears don't: they rapidly regrow dead hair cells, restoring lost hearing within weeks.
Here are some of the models that collectors desire most, with approximate prices for excellent examples whose authenticity is established: 1967 CAMARO CONVERTIBLE INDY 500 PACE CAR -- The Camaro paced the Brickyard field in its inaugural year.
With Undrafted not taking up the rematch, the way might have been clear for Brazen Beau, except that another sprinter exploded on to the scene at Ascot, the Charlie Hills-trained Muhaarar, who quite sensationally blew away what everyone believed to be a high-class field in the inaugural running of the Commonwealth Cup.
There was the Australian Geoff Ogilvy and South Korea's Han Chang-won, an amateur who took advantage of a new route into the Masters field by winning the inaugural Asian Amateur title last year.
Sonny Lindner won the inaugural race in 1984 from a field of 26 teams.
ANDREW FEINSTEIN is our inaugural host for "Quick study", a new series on Prospero that offers a crash course in a particular subject, delivered by an expert in the field, with some suggestions for further reading.
