It has emerged as a bellwether issue in the elections approaching in April.
If Novartis somehow managed to ward off generic versions of Glivec, India could be a huge market for the drug and a bellwether for other emerging markets.
When the conversion of a 1905 warehouse into the Porter House (No. 66) was completed by SHoP Architects in 2003, the building was a bellwether for the emerging minidistrict.
Microsoft is not the only player in IPTV set-top boxes, but it is an important bellwether for this emerging market.
The Indian IT-services giant, and an emerging-market bellwether, blamed uncertainty in Europe, its second-biggest market.
As one of a crop of venture investment firms and studios cropping up in the Midwest, High Alpha is something of a bellwether for the viability of the venture model in emerging ecosystems.
Buffalo has emerged as a major bellwether in commercial theater, which while centered on Broadway relies heavily on tours, which now gross more than $1 billion a year, or at least as much as Broadway itself.
But with reports last week from two bellwether companies -- I.B.M. and Microsoft -- a pattern may be emerging for the way the world will work going forward.
We considered 3 models of authority: (1) (emerging topic detection) ETD uniform (i.e., equal weight); (2) ETD PageRank; and 3 bellwether.
