31.   He also won his first Gold Glove award.

32.   Hip-hop group OutKast was a double winner and Whitney Houston was honored with a lifetime achievement award at the first BET awards Tuesday evening.

33.   If approved, the compensation would mark the first monetary awards to French-born children of foreign Jews who suffered persecution and deportation.

34.   It is the first award given to an African sports personality.

35.   It was her first award.

36.   It was his first major award.

37.   Now that Susan Lucci has won, Regis Philbin is the new lovable loser searching for his first Daytime Emmy award.

38.   She was the recipient of the first National Public Affairs award given by the federal government in the mid-Atlantic region.

39.   The conference also featured the first global anticounterfeiting awards to recognize business efforts to battle bogus products.

40.   The first annual awards will be presented next month.