"Knowing Sir Dave Brailsford and the way he works, his work ethic, he's been the big pioneer for clean cycling and we built our success off evidence-based programmes.
Back in September I spoke to the US's first Chief Information Officer Vivek Kundra, one of the big pioneers in this area who is leading Obama's open government agenda, and he said he loved the idea of the event (in retrospect: hmm...), and that he would definitely come to London if he wasn't on a trip in India with the president.
If the dollar has suffered most, it is only because American institutions are the biggest pioneers of financial globalisation.Yet wariness about the dollar may be part of the motivation to diversify.
Mickey Muñoz, a respected surfboard designer, said Hoffman's "biggest contribution was pioneering big waves".
By 1917, the government forced the big aviation pioneers to create a "patent pool" available for licence by all.Other examples of pernicious patents abound.
Bassist David Ellefson is the only other remaining member from the days when Megadeth were one of the "big four" pioneers of thrash metal (alongside Metallica, Slayer and Anthrax), but they are still greeted with a chant of "Mega!
Nor are there the easy, one-off gains to be made through privatisation of big industries pioneered in Britain in the 1980s under Margaret Thatcher.Barack Obama's promise to freeze discretionary spending (excluding defence and homeland security) saves $250 billion over ten years not much when annual deficits are $1 trillion or more.
He doesn't write with the propulsive rage that fueled Eric Schlosser's blockbuster "Fast Food Nation," nor does he take a firm stand on figures like the "Big Organic" pioneer Gene Kahn, an ex-hippie farmer from Washington State who decided that the only way to sustain his company, Cascadian Farm, was to sell it to General Mills.
But if the techniques weren't exactly new, some were new to TV. "Thirtysomething," learning from the example of movies like "The Big Chill," pioneered the use of popular music sprinkled throughout the show to evoke characters' tangled emotions and histories (like Joni Mitchell's "River" over the closing sequence of the "I'll Be Home for Christmas" episode).
The Baltimore and Ohio (B&O), the first of the big railroads, pioneered a new level of transparency.
