My guess is that Apple and/or Cook himself wanted to take on some of the questions surrounding Apple lately head-on.
Eighty years after the end of Prohibition, Mississippi has become the last of the 50 states to legalize one of the more innocent offshoots of the era of the Drys — home brewing, a hobby long suppressed in the states but lately generating a frothy head of popularity.
This is not a new idea, but it has gained a surprising head of steam lately, and for a simple reason: when the Golden State Warriors' Stephen Curry has the ball, a thirty-foot shot suddenly appears as natural and possible as a twenty-three-footer, and sixty-two-footers are, somehow, not entirely unexpected.
The nation has plenty of strange state legislatures, but lately New York's seems to be edging near the head of the pack.
Mr. Ross, 74, who has been batting away questions about a successor lately, said on Tuesday that he recently signed a contract to stay on as head of his private equity firm, W.L. Ross & Company.
Pelc has heard much lately about head-to-head hits, how they can cause concussions and fracture necks.
While "big data" has become an industry buzzword lately, NASA Langley Research Center has been dealing with it for decades, said Manjula Ambur, head of NASA Langley's Information Management Branch.
Something like that took place in the head of the author, a controversial and imperious Canadian-born, lately British, press lord.
Attorney General Eliot Spitzer, lately the scourge of investment banks, sat a handshake's distance from Richard A. Grasso, head of the New York Stock Exchange.
