31.   The first applications are being published now, just four months later, because their inventors filed earlier applications overseas.

32.   The first application is for detecting the wake behind big jets, which can toss smaller planes much as the wake of a big ship can swamp a rowboat.

33.   The first widespread commercial application of haptic tools arrived as part of computer-aided design, or CAD, of complex forms.

34.   The Portuguese cable system, TV Cabo Portugal, a unit of PT Multimedia, will provide the first commercial application for the Microsoft interactive software.

35.   The rest of the industry will be watching closely to see how a body created by Congress to distribute the loan guarantees handles the first application.

36.   The rest of the industry will watch closely to see how a body created to distribute the loan guarantees handles the first application.

37.   The three companies would be controlled by a single holding company, making the plan potentially the first application of proposed laws that would allow such entities in Japan.

38.   The three companies would be controlled by a single holding company, making the plan potentially the first application of proposed laws that would allow holding companies in Japan.

39.   These are the first rezoning applications to get bounced by the new rule.

40.   This is the first application of the Helms-Burton law, which President Clinton signed this year, against the advice of close advisers.