When it introduced Zyprexa in 1996, Lilly hailed it as a breakthrough with fewer side effects than older drugs.
US critics have already hailed it as a classic, with Michiko Kakutani in the New York Times comparing it to Toni Morrison, Victor Hugo, Jorge Luis Borges, Franz Kafka and Jonathan Swift and the Washington Post's Ron Charles announcing: "The canon of essential novels about America's peculiar institution just grew by one".
The 211-to-203 vote was a rare, though largely symbolic, victory for labor unions and Democrats, who immediately hailed it as evidence that, with his poll numbers slipping, President Bush was losing support among members of his own party.
Instantly the sketchwriters hailed it as a civil partnership, with gay innuendo the framing metaphor of the last three months.
As they began to digest the administration's fiscal blueprint, even Democrats with reservations hailed it as a long-overdue example of honesty in federal budgeting after years of what Senator Ben Nelson, Democrat of Nebraska, called "fudgeting".
Time magazine called Sapochnik's work "among the most beautifully shot in the show's history", while the New Yorker's Emily Nussbaum hailed it as "an action sequence with a flexible humanity, and a thoughtfulness about war, that the larger plotlines too often lack".
The prize's co-founder Andrew Kidd paid tribute to the breadth of the judges' selection, hailing it as a list with "something for everyone".
One interviewee who was horrified to be described as an entrepreneur, now wears the label with pride, hailing it as a symbol of liberation.
Skyfall has been praised by critics, with some indeed hailing it as the ultimate Bond adventure.
