21.   In the interview, her first since the initial family opposition surfaced in early November, Fiorina defended the deal and her tenure at Hewlett-Packard.

22.   It is likely that KJ will play for the first since since December sometime next week when the Suns are at Philadelphia, Toronto and New Jersey.

23.   It was his first since coming off the disabled list last week.

24.   Kennedy vigorously defended his business practices in an interview in Boston Thursday, his first since news of the reported affair broke in April.

25.   Last night it got a little low and she had a seizure, the first since her diabetes diagnosis three years ago.

26.   Meanwhile UN arms experts held talks with their Iraqi counterparts this morning, the first since the UN team arrived on Friday.

27.   Mike Mamula was a Philadelphia Eagle, the first since Ron Jaworski to hail from Lackawanna, N.Y.

28.   Mulford said the government has decided to delay the issue of a eurobond, the first since the breakup of the Soviet Union, until after the elections.

29.   Neither led a lap, a first since Phoenix last fall.

30.   Pena said his trade mission to Vietnam will be the first since the normalization of U.S.-Vietnam relations in August.