1.   Chen took office in May, in the first transfer of power from the Nationalists, who had ruled Taiwan for half a century.

2.   If Kim wins, it will be the first peaceful transfer of the presidency to the opposition party in modern Korean history.

3.   Regis, which has traditionally enrolled few transfers, last year hired its first full-time transfer recruiter and created new scholarships.

4.   The company was one of two that were already under U.S. investigation for the first transfer, which did nothing to diminish the Presidential spirit of cooperation.

5.   The end of the assembly, or loya jirga, marks the first peaceful transfer of power Afghanistan has witnessed in recent memory.

6.   The first transfer took place near Kadim in November.

7.   The following year the play moved to Broadway, the first transfer there from the Chicago company.

8.   The withdrawal was the first land transfer proscribed under the U.S.-brokered Wye Memorandum, signed a month ago to revive the floundering Oslo peace process.

9.   The withdrawal was the first land transfer prescribed under the U.S.-brokered Wye Memorandum, signed a month ago to revive the floundering Oslo peace process.

10.   Geology professor Emil Constantinescu was sworn in as president of Romania Friday, completing the first democratic transfer of power in the formerly communist country.