Before the urban farming boom even before Michelle Obama popularized the phenomena of "food deserts"—there was Ron Finley a man who calls himself a "gangster gardener," and who started urban gardening on the strip of dirt outside his home in South Los Angeles.
Decades before he popularized the phrase "creative destruction," Joseph Schumpeter, the Austrian School economist, was honing his ideas about innovation and disruptive change in "The Theory of Economic Development".
Before Ron Reagan popularized this issue at the Democratic Convention, there was little hint that it might become what Kerry's communications director, Stephanie Cutter, was now calling "the sleeper issue of the campaign".
The most absurd of those standards might be "Just a Gigolo," a song about being a male escort, which was originally written as an Austrian tango, by the Italian composer Leonello Casucci, before being popularized in America with lyrics by the Romanian-Jewish Broadway great Irving Caesar.
Worries over profits has also stifled innovation at G.M. Engineers actually started work on minivans a decade before Chrysler popularized them in the 1980s, said David Cole, chairman of the Center for Automotive Research in Ann Arbor, Mich., and the son of a former G.M. president, who has advised G.M. for years.
A few years before Dawkins popularized this point, the Australian agronomist Colin Donald hypothesized that there are often tradeoffs 'between the competitive ability of cultivars against other genotypes on the one hand, and their capacity for yield in pure culture on the other' (Donald 1968).
Before she popularized the black dress in the 1920s, it was mostly used for mourning periods.
Mr. Marshall made the most piquant of all the toasts: his mother, he said, had been born before the zipper was popularized, before five states had yet to be admitted into the union, and a year before the Wright Brothers flew their plane.
Samsung has created smart watch tech in the past, but this might be another case where Apple takes the tech and leads the way in terms of building a device that actually works with a user's existing workflow, popularizing the concept before Samsung and others move to follow its lead.
East title and popularizing the Wildcat formation.
