"What we finally have here, after 40 years of waiting, is the beginning of the personal space flight revolution," said the man behind the prize, space enthusiast Peter Diamandis.
Soon afterwards, she wrote "at white heat", to use Trevor's term for Hill's usual pace, In the Springtime of the Year (1973), a cathartic novel powered by her grief and anger, and which, she writes in Family, "marked both an end and a beginning - the end of six years of my best writing of fiction, the beginning of a personal healing".
He also got involved in database work, mailing lists and the beginning of the personal computer market.
Lawrence's works, displayed pristinely and evocatively as they are, can be the beginning of that personal migration.
If 50 is the "new 30" and 40 is the "new 20," I'm not sure where I fit on the age spectrum, but as I mark the beginning of my personal new yaer I took some time to reflect on a few lessons that I've learned along the way.
Important was, especially at the beginning, the development of personal relationships which was only possible through on site visits and practical collaborative work.
From the backbenches, he began a campaign of personal attack against Peel.
The right likes to say that Democrats began the politics of personal destruction in the rejection of Judge Robert Bork's nomination to the Supreme Court in 1987.
After bitter constitutional disputes, Charles dismissed Parliament in 1629 and began 11 years of personal rule; during this time, deprived of parliamentary sources of revenue, he was forced to employ ship money as a financial expedient.
Peace Now and the Solidarity (Sheikh Jarrah) movement have begun collecting thousands of personal pledges advocating boycotts against settlement.
