1.   He remembers when he began the first of his three stints at the White House in the Reagan era.

2.   It dismissed an African-American woman, beginning the first in a series of sidebar discussions in which the defense argued that the prosecution was dismissing jurors based on race.

3.   Israel was scheduled to begin the first of a three-stage pullback next Monday, but has already said it will be delayed.

4.   Ross and Newman are to begin the first of their spacewalks on Monday.

5.   So David soon began the first of several restructurings, divesting ancillary businesses and slashing thousands of jobs.

6.   The Duma began the first of four readings of the budget today.

7.   The stock surge began the first of the many takeover rumors that would follow the company after that.

8.   Three of them gathered in the dancing shadows, their faces alternately orange and black, and began the first of the wakes.

9.   Thursday night, two of the astronauts are to begin the first of four, lengthy back-to-back spacewalks to install two large new science instruments and other electronic upgrades.

10.   This year, a consortium of companies began the first of several planned exploratory wells to see what lies inside.