The country's first post-apartheid president, Nelson Mandela, campaigned hard for the prestigious tournament because he saw it as a way to further reconciliation after decades of racial separation and conflict.

VOA: standard.2010.06.07

And we've been living the history of how to reform the industrializing process, and now the post-industrializing process, ever since our first market revolution we're still living it.

我们那时就已生活在一个,如何改革工业化进程的历史时期中,现在的后工业化进程,其实从第一次市场革命就开始了,到今天仍是如此

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Many years later, Wiley Post would say that first airplane was the most wonderful thing he had ever seen.

VOA: special.2009.03.18

President Obama, at his first major press conference, called on a reporter for a Web-only operation, the Huffington Post.

VOA: special.2009.03.21

But after his first ride, Wiley Post knew that flying was something he could learn to do.

VOA: special.2009.03.18

At first, she was concerned only with finding a way to keep control of The Washington Post until her sons were old enough to supervise it.

VOA: special.2009.04.26

The Seattle Post-Intelligencer has become America's first major daily newspaper to publish online-only.

VOA: special.2009.03.21

Yet Wiley Post was the first to fly around the world alone.

VOA: special.2009.03.18

It was the first time the public heard the name Wiley Post.

VOA: special.2009.03.18

At first,Post thought his days as a pilot were ended.

VOA: special.2009.03.18

"First of all, I want everybody here to be careful about what you post on Facebook because in the YouTube age, whatever you do, it will be pulled up again later somewhere in your life.

VOA: special.2009.09.14

In a blog post called "First Click Free," Google's senior business product manager Josh Cohen wrote: "Previously,each click from a user would be treated as free.

VOA: standard.2009.12.05

If he is confirmed by the Senate to the Cabinet-level post, Lew would inherit a deficit of more than $1 trillion for the first three-quarters of this fiscal year, with more deficits to come.

VOA: standard.2010.07.13

Strauss-Kahn said the recent Group of 20 meeting in London, which he attended, was exceptionally successful, mainly because leaders committed themselves to taking all actions necessary to pull the global economy out of its first synchronized, post-World War II downturn.

VOA: standard.2009.04.16