1.   He only got two balls, and the first took a bad hop and ticked off his glove for a base hit.

2.   On the first downwind leg, Young America tried to attack in a gibing duel when the first of two mechanical snafus took the power out of their punch.

3.   The first took place in early April in Havana, with Baltimore winning in extra innings.

4.   The first took place last winter, just before a U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals upheld a ruling ordering Napster to halt unauthorized exchange of copyrighted songs.

5.   The first of those takes place Monday in Cupertino.

6.   The first took place in one of the homes, at a party with unsupervised teenagers.

7.   This will be the fourth meeting between Fox and Bush, but the first since Bush took office last month.

8.   When the British first took over, Hong Kong was still a sleepy harbor used only by fishermen, pirates and opium smugglers.

9.   Both sides, as well as the East Timorese resistance movement Fretilin, appeared satisfied with the results of the talks, the first since Annan took office.

10.   That was followed by bilateral talks between Rumsfeld and Ivanov, their first since Rumsfeld took charge of the Pentagon and Ivanov stepped into his new defense post.