That attention laid the groundwork for the second ingredient necessary for the grand expansion of Mr. Glass's career: commissions from the musical establishment, which had ignored him until then.
What Bodley heard there reportedly made him feel that what he and millions of other soldiers had fought for, was all for nothing; he stated that "selfish politicians [were] laying the groundwork for the Second World War – each country grabbing all it could for itself, creating national antagonisms, and reviving the intrigues of secret".
These three Snark, Navaho, and Matador provided the necessary technical groundwork for the first truly successful strategic cruise missiles, which entered service in the 1980s.
By 1993, not a single Republican would vote for a deficit package drafted by the Clinton administration and Congressional Democrats that laid the groundwork for the first balanced budget since the late 1960s.
In laying out what he says is "the groundwork for the first successful human head transplant", Dr Canavero admits that his polymer gel reattachment method (known as GEMINI) would not be perfect.
The talk was held in Boston, and its nebulous-sounding subject ("The Uses of Natural History," a title that conceals its greatness well) helped lay the groundwork for the nineteenth-century philosophy of transcendentalism.
Celia W. Dugger (NYT) NORTH KOREA, U.S.: TALKS TODAY American and North Korean negotiators will meet in Berlin today to try to prepare the groundwork for the first high-level visit by North Korean officials to the United States.
The Environmental Protection Agency is close to reaching an agreement with some of the nation's largest animal processors that would lay the groundwork for the first federal emission standards for companies that process millions of pigs, cows and chickens every day.
All of the women, desperate to carry a child of their own, had heard that doctors at New York Downtown Hospital had harvested wombs from eight brain-dead human donors, laying the groundwork for the first human uterine transplant in the Western world.
It was the depredations of the warlords who ruled this period, many of whom are nearly as powerful today as back then, that laid the groundwork for the third chapter: the rise and dominion of the Taliban, who seized Kabul in 1996, and before the United States invasion, controlled 90 percent of the country despite being almost entirely made up of Pashtuns, who are less than half the population.
First, Claudia Alexander of the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California, reviewed We Could Not Fail, which "presents the biographies of 10 African-American engineers, mathematicians, and technicians who laid the groundwork for the first African-American astronauts through their involvement in the U.S. space program in the 1950s and 1960s".
