Barra will oversee Xiaomi's international expansion and try to help it do what no other Chinese smartphone maker: achieve the name recognition of competing smartphone makers like Apple, Samsung, HTC and Sony.
It never achieved the household-name status of Stax or Motown, but the crowd wants to change that.
It features comics who generally haven't achieved the household-name status of those on the Showtime series, though some are well established.
In 1995, Robert D. Putnam, a political scientist at Harvard University, published an academic journal article that in remarkably short order achieved the kind of name recognition usually reserved for John Grisham novels.
The Red Sox achieved the Impossible Dream, the name given to their pennant quest, but lost the World Series in seven games to St . Louis
"It was a great relief to have someone who shared all the skepticism that was appropriate to bring to bear on any reading of American history, but who hadn't lost sight of the fact, as many people on the left had, of the really remarkable things that had been achieved in the name of progress in American history, and the radical potential of American democracy.
The commission has faced criticism for its 15% requirement, with third parties and advocacy groups arguing that independent candidates cannot meet that threshold without spending millions of dollars to achieve the necessary name recognition.
Yet, in the decades that followed, Gerstl never achieved the degree of international name-recognition accorded to his contemporaries Oskar Kokoschka and Egon Schiele, not to mention the somewhat older Gustav Klimt.
And recently it achieved the distinction of being named the country's second-worst company by Consumerist.com after BP Plc, the firm blamed for the worst U.S. offshore oil spill.
Their company is now an essential tool in almost every part of our lives; its name has achieved the rare distinction shared by the likes of Hoover and Biro, where brand becomes synonymous with product.
