Another milestone occurred Tuesday, when General Motors picked Mary Barra, a 33-year company veteran, as the first female head of a major US car company.
Another tangible and fanfare-free milestone occurred over the weekend at ground zero, where two steel columns of 1 World Trade Center rose above street level for the first time.
WASHINGTON — In case you missed it — the Nobel Prize announcement may have been distracting — a momentous milestone occurred last week in the presidency of Barack Obama: He spent his first Leif Erikson Day in the White House.
One important milestone occurred last year when messaging apps surpassed social networks based on number of monthly active users.
Akismet's last big milestone occurred in April of last year, when it filtered its 25 billionth piece of spam.
The milestone occurred in his seventh NHL game.
A movement milestone occurred in July 1986, when the University of California Board of Regents voted to sell all $3.1 billion of its stock in such corporations.
A significant milestone occurred in July 2012 when the U.S. Food and Drug Administration FDAapprovedved the use of daily oral emtricitabine/tenofovir disoproxil fumarate (Truvada) as HIV pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP).
Another milestone occurred when Smithfield Foods, Inc., entered into an agreement with the state Attorney General in 2000 after dozens of lagoons ruptured during Hurricane Floyd, resulting in Clean Water Act violations.
A major milestone occurred with the discovery of two DNA polymerases that displayed remarkable processivity for DNA synthesis: Phi29 (Φ29) isolated from the Bacillus subtilis bacteriophage, and Bst polymerase isolated from Bacillus stearothermophilus.
