Thank you, Joan Garcés, for starting the process in Spain to sue Pinochet's Chile for harm against Spaniards, a process that laid the groundwork for universal jurisdiction.
His research, begun in the 1960s, helped lay the groundwork for the Human Genome Project, started in 1990 and concluded triumphantly in 2003 with the sequencing of the entire human genome, comprising more than three billion units of DNA.
The agreement between Telefónica and Rhapsody lays the groundwork for individual operators to start bundling Napster into their tariffs, but each subsidiary will be able to choose other music partners if it prefers.
Jenny Griffiths started the groundwork for what would become Snap Fashion during her degree at the University of Bristol where she graduated in 2009.
Sync is free to use, like the rest of BitTorrent's services today, but a spokesperson tells me that this is also laying the groundwork for the company also to start introducing paid, premium services aimed at enterprises and power users.
Both were fitting tributes to the late Sasha Petraske, who laid the groundwork for New York's thriving cocktail scene, starting with Milk & Honey, in 1999, as well as for Seaborne.
There were two Iron Man films before that set the groundwork for the basic look and feel, starting with Dav Rauch and Kent Seki's excellent work on the first to determine how the HUD even worked and lived on screen.
Those gathering under the "big tent" should start laying the groundwork for establishing Afghanistan as a permanently neutral state.
Delegates from more than 150 nations have been negotiating in Tianjin for the past week, working to lay the groundwork for the meeting in Mexico, which starts Nov. 29.
Intentional or not, the speech was read in Kabul as giving a green light to other Western countries to start laying the groundwork for talks.
