This was, in some sense, a predictable development: a couple of months before Facebook's I.P.O., no enterprise could function without a little Internet credibility.
Layman's hotchpotch of real and imaginary streets became a tour of Atlantic City, from the rundown Baltic Avenue, where the African American maid of one of the Quakers lived, to the famous Boardwalk via Marven Gardens, a housing development a couple of miles to the south.
For two decades it was steadily outflanked by new developments, but a couple of years back the urban sprawl went exponential.
A stronger dollar (which reduces the value of profits in other currencies) and the weak oil price (which hits the earnings of energy companies) played a big part in the fall.These developments imply a couple of bearish possibilities.
La Havas has been "in development" for a couple of years.
The process of finding vaccine candidates "could go from 10 years' worth of development to a couple of months," Mr. Paull said.
A We only started the commercial development unit a couple of years ago in four cities: Seattle, Houston, D.C. and Boston.
Dr Zak's went through two years of research and development and a couple of bakers before hitting upon a formula that tasted, and felt, like proper bread.
The group also says it intends to spend an additional $700 million on a second phase of development within a couple of years, which would be used to add a hotel and mall.
That gave him hands-on experience, so that when he stepped into the role of business development manager a couple of years later, "he knew what he is talking about," Scott says of courting prospective clients.
