Still, the swearing in of Mr. Sayeed, 66, a longtime politician and a former government minister, was a milestone for the state.
Mr. Romney, a former Massachusetts governor, marked the milestone by introducing a new line of attack on the president, accusing Mr. Obama's administration of wasting taxpayer dollars on a reckless investment in the alternative-energy company, Solyndra.
The 15-year-old rapper Bow Wow was the headliner, and it must have been a solemn career milestone when the former Lil' Bow Wow decided that he was grown-up enough to be Lil' no longer.
On Wednesday, an international team of physicists based in the same cavern of the former mine announced a new milestone of frustration, but also hope — this time in the search for dark matter, the mysterious, invisible ingredient that astronomers say makes up a quarter of the cosmos.
A "milestone," is how former Bush speechwriter David Frum put it.
He became the 28th major leaguer to hit the milestone and joined former teammate Wade Boggs as the only players to do it with a home run.
The opening of the George W. Bush Presidential Library and Museum in Dallas on Thursday may serve as the latest milestone for the former president, but it offered Jon Stewart an opportunity to again lower the boom on one of his favorite targets.
AP: President-elect Barack Obama plans to nominate Hillary Rodham Clinton as secretary of state after Thanksgiving, a new milestone for the former first lady and a convergence of two political forces who fought hard for the presidency.
Cameras are taken outside of the "Top Chef" kitchen and into the lives of Bravo's most beloved former cheftestants as they reach milestones in their personal lives and culinary careers.
Terrell Davis, Elway's former teammate, said that that possible milestone was why he was rooting for Denver.
