If you have a good plan that matches at least some portion of your money, contributing to it is the
first thing you should do when saving for retirement, says Michael Buccolo, director of equity marketing at New York-based AXA Advisors.
Don't label it "contingency"-- that's the
first thing to get cut -- but build it in throughout your program.
While we want to do education and good things, when it comes down to it, the
first thing is they want to put food on the table and send their kids to college.
"The funny thing about that is, with any kind of new communications medium, the
first thing to show up is adult entertainment.
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First Things First" is a reform model intended to transform elementary, middle, and high schools serving significant proportions of economically disadvantaged students.
First Things to Hand is a free-verse poetry chapbook by teacher and prizewinning poet Robert Pinsky, contemplating the most elementary of ordinary items yet revealing the distinctions each object sheds upon the multifaceted human experience.
Richard John Neuhaus, the author of thirteen books and the editor of
First Things, is one of the best Catholic writers in the English-speaking world.
In the year of Clinton's re-election, a federal district court ruling to permit physician-assisted suicide shook the editors of the Catholic journal
First Things so violently that they began to ask whether judicial tyranny had destroyed democracy itself.
From 2001 to 2005, Linker worked side by side with Neuhaus as an editor at the latter's monthly journal,
First Things, and presumably shared his boss's enthusiasm for mixing prophetic religion and radical politics.
He explains that it's not that they're disinterested in working on the amenities, but it is a matter of
first things first: "Our priority has clearly been to stop the silly, annoying, frustrating, and loyalty-sapping problems that our customers have endured." Hallmark adds: "We'd loved to be loved in every dimension, but we have to be loved for our technical competence, because we're a technical company."
Researchers tracked Career Academies;
First Things First; and Talent Development, breaking down the effectiveness of the initiatives into five areas that challenge high schools.
Supreme Court, McConnell wrote in the conservative religious journal
First Things, "hangs by a thread." Assuming that the next president would have an opportunity to appoint justices to the high court, McConnell wrote, "To an extent rarely seen in the history of the nation, the content and meaning of the Constitution appear to be up for a vote in the next presidential election."
Janet McHard, CPA, supervising senior accountant, cites "put
first things first" (habit three) as most meaningful to her for help in balancing day-to-day work, career and family.
One of the
first things we did was set out to transform the company's culture.
In November 1996, a symposium appearing in the neo-conservative religious journal
First Things incited a controversy.