In December 2000 Guinea-Bissau qualified for almost $ 800 million in debt-service relief under the first phase of the enhanced HIPC initiative and is scheduled to submit its Poverty Reduction Strategy Paper in March 2002.

In the 1980s, play-by-mail games reached their peak of popularity with the advent of Gaming Universal, Paper Mayhem and Flagship magazine, the first professional magazines devoted to play-by-mail games.

In his first session for Monument in Nashville, Orbison took on a song that RCA had refused, " Paper Boy ", backed by " With The Bug " as the B-side, but neither charted.

Ditko's first published work was his second professional story, the six-page " Paper Romance " in Daring Love # 1 ( Oct. 1953 ), published by the Key imprint Gillmor Magazines.

* 1975 — The first Worldwatch Paper was published.

In 1950, Paper Mate made its first leak free ball point pen.

* June 30 – The Black Arrow by Robert Louis Stevenson first appears as a serial in Young Folks ; A Boys ' and Girls ' Paper of Instructive and Entertaining Literature.

* 650, The first Chinese Paper money is issued.

* The Chinese first produce Paper.

Baran developed the concept of message block switching during his research at the RAND Corporation for the US Air Force into survivable communications networks, first presented to the Air Force in the summer of 1961 as briefing B-265 then published as RAND Paper P-2626 in 1962 and then including and expanding somewhat within a series of eleven papers titled On Distributed Communications in 1964.

In 2009, Toronto-based, American-born poet Damian Rogers released her first volume of poetry, Paper Radio.

According to John Canemaker, in Paper Dreams: The Art and Artists of Disney Storyboards ( 1999, Hyperion Press ), the first storyboards at Disney evolved from comic-book like " story sketches " created in the 1920s to illustrate concepts for animated cartoon short subjects such as Plane Crazy and Steamboat Willie, and within a few years the idea spread to other studios.

Paper Mario is the first installment for the Paper Mario series and is the predecessor to the GameCube game Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door, the Wii game Super Paper Mario, and the upcoming 3DS game Paper Mario: Sticker Star.

Also known as Paper Mill Village, Alstead is the location of the state's first paper mill.

Her first album, Lyte as a Rock, was released in September 1988 and was noted for the hit " Paper Thin " and the battle rap, " 10 % Dis ", which was a response from then-Hurby Azor associate Antoinette.

They are introduced and read a first time, and then are dropped from the Order Paper.

Although the White Paper entitled " Economic Development " was first introduced in 1958 in de Valera's last government, its main recommendations formed the basis for the First Programme for Economic Expansion, which was adopted by Lemass as government policy upon his ascension in 1959.

The Paper was shifted from Vienna to St. Petersburg and the first issue under Lenin's leadership was published on 5 May 1912 ( April 22 1912 OS ).

His very first work was the tune for the song " Paper Moon " (" Χάρτινο το Φεγγαράκι "), from Tennessee Williams ' A Streetcar Named Desire staged by Karolos Koun's Art Theatre of Athens, a collaboration which continued for 15 years.

The Paper Chase is a novel set amid a student's first (" One L ") year at the school.

Speech featured a heavy stress on the first syllable of a word, causing syncopation by weakening of the remaining vowels, which then were not represented in writing: Alcsntre for Alexandros, Rasna for Rasena.

* Jose Ayala Lasso Speech to the German expellees, Day of the Homeland, Berlin 6 August 2005 Lasso was the first United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights ( 1994 – 1997 )

He worked as an advertising agent after studying acting at the Hickman School of Speech and Expression in Washington, D. C. His work as a theatre critic inspired him to become involved in theatre productions, first in Virginia, and then in New York.

John Milton's pamphlet Areopagitica, a Speech for the Liberty of Unlicensed Printing, published in 1644, was one of the first publications advocating freedom of the press.

* Feast of Qawl ( Speech ) – The first day of the 14th month of the Bahá ' í calendar.

* 1957 – Queen Elizabeth II becomes the first Canadian Monarch to open up an annual session of the Canadian Parliament, presenting her Speech from the Throne in Ottawa, Canada.

The House of Commons gets its first chance to indicate confidence in the new government when it votes on the Speech from the Throne ( the legislative programme proposed by the new government ).

One of the first was the Telesensory Systems Inc. ( TSI ) Speech + portable calculator for the blind in 1976.

In the same year, Derrida published his first three books — Writing and Difference, Speech and Phenomena, and Of Grammatology.

He was chosen by Channel 4 to deliver the first " Alternative Christmas Speech ", a counterpoint to the Queen's Christmas speech, in 1993.

The positions of Counselor, Learning Disabled Instructor and Speech were the first positions to be shared.

* Governor-General Tim Healy's first Speech to the Dáil ( 12 December 1922 )

Boortz's first book was The Commencement Speech You Need To Hear in 1997, followed by The Terrible Truth About Liberals, in 1998.

By studying the phonetic peculiarities of dialect of the local population of Siberia, professor Gabdulkhay Akhatov first among the scientists discovered in the Speech of Siberian Tatars is such a thing as the pronounce, which in his opinion, was obtained for the Siberian Tatars of Kipchaks.

The glitch was known and used from an early point on, first by Electronic Speech Systems to produce sampled speech in games such as Impossible Mission ( 1983, Epyx ) and Ghostbusters ( 1984, Activision ).

In the British Parliament, a no-confidence motion generally first appears as an early day motion, although the vote on the Queen's Speech also constitutes a confidence motion.

The first voice messaging application, the Speech Filing System ( later renamed Audio Distribution System ( ADS ) was developed at the IBM Thomas J. Watson Research Center in 1973 under the leadership of Stephen Boies, who worked on the modern day voice-mail or voice messaging.

Gladstone by now converted to granting Home Rule, on introducing the first Home Rule Bill 1886 and after a long and fierce debate, made a remarkable Home Rule Speech, beseeching parliament to pass the bill which was however defeated by 341 to 311 votes. The Bill caused serious riots in Belfast during the summer and autumn of 1886 in which many were killed.

Returning to the U. S., he worked in the MIT Speech Computation Laboratory under Professor Ken Stevens, where he wrote the first Analysis by Synthesis program.

According to Kalugin, Stone followed a practice of having lunch with a Soviet press attaché from time to time, but broke off this luncheon relationship after his first visit to the Soviet Union in 1956 and after hearing Nikita Khrushchev's " Secret Speech " denouncing Stalin and the tyranny of his regime.

* A 2008 speech entitled " Republicrats " by Thomas Teague was awarded first place at the Oklahoma State Speech and Debate Contest, which drove home the point that neither party has all of the answers and that people should be open minded.

In the following years, a professional training program in Speech Pathology ( 1935 ) and the first undergraduate program in broadcasting and broadcast journalism ( 1937 ) were offered for the first time in the United States.

The combination of a stairway that can be used as a large raised platform and a ready audience makes Upper Sproul Plaza a popular location for student protests, the first of which occurred in 1964 during the Free Speech Movement, when Mario Savio spoke from the Sproul Hall steps, and folk singer Joan Baez gave an early performance.