As "Avatar" knocks down box office records, the film has hit another, less estimable milestone: it has become the fastest-pirated movie, according to one tracking firm's figures.
Groupon, which has aggressively focused on its international expansion plans as of late, also hit a less notable milestone today, over $1 billion dollars saved through the use of Groupons.
The yardstick also reached another important albeit less celebrated milestone, breaking through the 1179 level where the index is exactly 30 times trailing 12-month earnings on a reported basis.
ONE of the less noted milestones of the year just ended was the 50th anniversary of the window sticker, the now-ubiquitous price sheet that has helped to make new-car purchases a bit less confounding since the late 1950s.
While HBO cameramen shadow Derek Jeter as he approaches three thousand hits [Update: he got there Saturday, with a home run; more on that below], and while marketers finalize their plans to monetize the dirt beneath the Yankee captain's feet, I'll be anticipating another, far-less-heralded, milestone of unspectacular accumulation: Tim Wakefield's two-hundredth win.
A couple of months ago, he staged a big barbecue in the papers' back lot and put out an advertising-packed special section to celebrate The Inquirer's 180th anniversary — a less-obvious milestone than, say, a 175th or 200th anniversary.
By Ben McGrath July 8, 2011 While HBO cameramen shadow Derek Jeter as he approaches three thousand hits [Update: he got there Saturday, with a home run; more on that below], and while marketers finalize their plans to monetize the dirt beneath the Yankee captain's feet, I'll be anticipating another, far-less-heralded, milestone of unspectacular accumulation: Tim Wakefield's two-hundredth win.
I'm struck less by the milestone she represents, an inevitable one, than by the campaign that preceded it.
"On 27 October 2011 we reached the 10 million active pastes milestone; less than a year later on 4 July 2012 that doubled to 20 million, and now just over three months later we are celebrating 25 million pastes".
The less sensitive sexual milestone questions (menstruation for female and wet dream for male adolescents and then questions of early romantic relationships ever experienced, i.e., girlfriend or boyfriend, and any practice of kissing and male/female genital touching) were asked first.
