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The magazine is also, for the first time, rather stylish.

It will leave Vivendi in control of its five biggest assets for the first time, rather than holding lots of minority stakes.Unlike many media groups, Vivendi does not encourage its businesses to find synergies.

They said that some of those voters could easily be accounted for by the normal circulation of people moving into areas, such as students or 16-year-olds 16-year-olds 16-year-olds registeringr than representing unregistered adults.

As she went up to collect her gong, the horror on some faces in the audience suggested they were watching The Exorcist for the first time rather than admiring a well-deserved winner [see footnote].

(Though, since it would involve a pair of people making a hazardous journey for the first time, rather than a copy-cat, albeit solo, trip eight years later, a better comparison would be with Alcock and Brown, two British pilots who flew the Atlantic in 1919).Marooned on MarsMr Tito intends to simplify things by not landing.

In addition, by presenting the injustices of the world in the novel, in particular the demeaning treatment and dehumanisation of the 'drudges', through the eyes of an innocent, the reader is confronted with them as though for the first time, rather like the filtering through Scout's eyes in To Kill a Mockingbird.

But I learned at LoveFilm, where I used to work, that if the service is engaging and innovative enough then it should grab the audience's attention first time rather than taking multiple views.

Philae's landing marks the first time people or, rather, their robotic representatives—have made a soft landing on a comet.

The objects they created were for the first time symbolic rather than practical.Decorated bones are found in burial sites or in the dark recesses of caves, indicating a preoccupation with the hereafter and the existence of early shamanist rituals.

The documents show for the first time that rather than acting as a passive party to the tax schemes of its clients, HSBC Suisse proactively contacted clients to market techniques that would have effectively sabotaged the tax treaty deal.

At one point, Lenny is reacting to hearing about Greg and Charlotte for the first time, and rather than shutting down, he goes into hyperdrive, producing a staccato string of clever comments.