Hell, I gave him the first decent job he ever had, six, seven -- how many years ago was it, Rob ''??

All seven recognized that independence was but the first step toward building a nation.

In the first place, a large part of the discrepancy between President Eisenhower's estimate of a 1.5 billion dollar surplus for the same period and the new estimate of an almost seven billion dollar deficit is the result of the outgoing President's farewell gift of a political booby-trap to his successor.

In about seven years Griffith either invented or first realized the possibilities of virtually every resource at the disposal of the film maker.

Until late last Saturday afternoon Palmer had played seven consecutive rounds of golf at the Masters -- four last year and three this -- without ever being out of first place.

A paper published at the same time as the 2009 classification proposed seven subfamilies for the families recognized in the very first APG classification of 1998.

* 1959 – Project Mercury: NASA announces the selection of the United States ' first seven astronauts, whom the news media quickly dub the " Mercury Seven ".

This was the first time since that the home team won all seven games of a World Series and the first time that a National League team won a World Series in which the home team won all seven games of a World Series.

He made the first seven scenes of the Great Passion in the same year, and a little later, a series of eleven on the Holy Family and saints.

Road construction first became a priority after 1750, when Zurich and Bern began appointing a governor for seven years.

With the exception of the first term, it has been held by the Labour Party, and for seven years was held by Ramsay MacDonald, the Prime Minister in 1924 and from 1929 to 1935.

* In Nizhny Novgorod, there is a Sakharov Museum in the apartment on the first floor of the 12-storeyed house where the Sakharov family lived for seven years.

In its first seven years, the Werkbund came to be regarded as the authoritative body on questions of design in Germany, and was copied in other countries.

In its 12-year history as an amateur league, the Brooklyn Atlantics won seven championships, establishing themselves as the first true dynasty in the sport, although, the New York Mutuals were widely considered to be one of the best teams of the era as well.

Federko scored at least 90 points in seven of the eight seasons between 1978 and 1986, and became the first player in NHL history to record at least 50 assists in 10 consecutive seasons.

Some competitions use a " set " scoring system, with the first to seven points awarded a set in a best-or-three or best-of-five set match.

The fragments describe a Babylonian king ( spelled N-b-n-y ) who is afflicted by God with an " evil disease " for a period of seven years ; he is cured and his sins forgiven after the intervention of a Jewish exile who is described as a " diviner "; he issues a written proclamation in praise of the Most High God, and speaks in the first person.

* He became the first man to score seven centuries in eight first-class innings, the first being the record 375 against England and the last being the record 501 not out against Durham.

His first draft, produced during Henry's reign, retained the traditional seven distinct Canonical hours of Office prayer ; but in his second draft, while he retained the Latin, he consolidated these into two.

It is common to display the Gregorian calendar in separate monthly grids of seven columns ( from Monday to Sunday, or Sunday to Saturday depending on which day is considered to start the week-this varies according to country ) and five to six rows ( or rarely, four rows when the month of February contains 28 days beginning on the first day of the week ), with the day of the month numbered in each cell, beginning with 1.

The first equipment supplied included three Douglas C-47's and seven MH. 1521 Broussard STOL utility aircraft in 1961.

The eradication of extreme poverty and hunger was the first Millennium Development Goal, as set by 179 United Nations Member States in 2000.

* In the episode " 11: 59 " of Star Trek: Voyager's fifth season ( original air date: May 5, 1999 ), Earth's first self-contained ecosystem known as " The Millennium Gate " is referenced and described as one kilometer tall and having begun construction in 2001.

Conversely the use of true brass seems to have declined in Western Europe during this period in favour of gunmetals and other mixed alloys but by the end of the first Millennium AD brass artefacts are found in Scandinavian graves in Scotland, brass was being used in the manufacture of coins in Northumbria and there is archaeological and historical evidence for the production of brass in Germany and The Low Countries areas rich in calamine ore which would remain important centres of brass making throughout the medieval period, especially Dinant – brass objects are still collectively known as dinanterie in French.

It is one of the seven Millennium Prize Problems selected by the Clay Mathematics Institute to carry a US $ 1, 000, 000 prize for the first correct solution.

The mission of the Alliance originates from the first and eight UN Millennium Development Goals ; reducing the number of people that suffer from hunger in half by 2015 ( preceded by the “ Rome Declaration ” in 1996 ) and developing a global partnership for development.

* 2004 – Millennium Park, considered Chicago, Illinois's first and most ambitious early 21st century architectural project, is opened to the public by Mayor Richard M. Daley.

Madagascar became the first country with a Millennium Challenge Account compact when it signed an agreement worth $ 110 million in April 2006.

Older accepted studies place the spread of both copper and Iron technology to date from the early first Millennium CE: 1500 years later than the Termit Massif finds.

It is one of the seven Millennium Prize Problems, for which the Clay Mathematics Institute offered a $ 1, 000, 000 prize for the first correct solution.

Bortezomib, a molecule developed by Millennium Pharmaceuticals and marketed as Velcade, is the first proteasome inhibitor to reach clinical use as a chemotherapy agent.

The program was designed to achieve the first objective of the United Nations ' Millennium Development Goals, " to eradicate extreme poverty and reduce hunger to zero.

SNK released the first game of this type, SNK vs. Capcom: The Match of the Millennium, for its Neo Geo Pocket Color handheld at the end of 1999.

The first single, " Millennium ", became Williams ' first solo number one single in the United Kingdom.

He embarked on a US promotional tour and released his first U. S. and Canadian single, " Millennium ".

According to the UN State of the World Population 2007 report, sometime in the middle of 2007, the majority of people worldwide will be living in towns or cities, for the first time in history ; this is referred to as the arrival of the " Urban Millennium " or the ' tipping point '.

In July 2000 the Millennium became the first cruise ship to be propelled by gas turbines, in a Combined Gas and Steam Turbine configuration.

Guido suggests that if a " few dominating leaders arrived as heroes only a few centuries before Phoenician trading posts were established, several features of Sardinian prehistory might be explained as innovations introduced by them: oriental types of armour, and fighting perpetuated in the bronze representation of warriors several centuries later ; the arrival of the Cypriot copper ingots of the Serra Ilixi type ; the sudden advance in and inventiveness of design of the Sardinian nuraghes themselves at about the turn of the first Millennium ; the introduction of certain religious practices such as the worship of water in sacred wells-if this fact was not introduced by the Phoenician settlers ".

In the 1990s, he combined his two research strands in The Information Age: Economy, Society and Culture, published as a trilogy, The Rise of the Network Society ( 1996 ), The Power of Identity ( 1997 ), and End of Millennium ( 1998 ); two years later, its worldwide, favourable critical acceptance in university seminars, prompted publication of a second ( 2000 ) edition that is 40 per cent different from the first ( 1996 ) edition.

The Millennium Cinema was one of the first in Poland to have a cinerama.

The couple first met backstage on New Year's Eve 1999 at Billy Joel's 2000 Years: The Millennium Concert at Madison Square Garden.

Throughout the first story arc she has by far the strongest memories of their past life during the Silver Millennium.

Cedar Point built the first giga coaster, Millennium Force, in 2000.

* Millennium Fantasy, for Piano and Orchestra ( 2000 ; commissioned for Pianist Jeffrey Biegel, project featuring 27 orchestras in the USA created by Jeffrey Biegel ; first largest consortium of orchestras ); premiere with Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra, Jesus Lopez-Cobos conductor ; recorded for Naxos with the Florida State University Orchestra, Alexander Jimenez conductor

* Armstrong continually preached that Jesus Christ would return to earth to " rescue " humanity from the brink of self-annihilation, resulting in the establishment of " God's government " during a 1, 000 year ' Millennium ' and utopia under the rulership of Christ and his " first fruits ", constituting of Armstrong's believers converted into " spirit beings " at the " first resurrection ".