When I congratulated her on this career milestone, she brushed aside my praise with an apologetic, "It's the same job I had before, only with a different title".
Aside from the milestone payments, Lilly will also buy $30 million in Amylin stock at a 50% premium to Thursday's closing price.
Clinical implications aside, the new work represents an important milestone in our understanding of the brain, says Alexey Semyanov, a neurophysiologist at the RIKEN Brain Science Institute in Japan.
Aside from being a beautiful performance of a milestone play, this new production of The Normal Heart is a potent reminder of where we've been and where we need to go in the fight against AIDS.
Aside from the performance of the Dow, the markets responded with milestones of other sorts, with the broader market as measured by the Standard & Poor's 500-stock index pushing ahead by 6.94 percent for the year to date, its best such showing since the 13.97 percent gain in the similar period in 1987.
The supreme court's decision on Wednesday to sweep aside the injunction that prevented the book from appearing was hailed as a milestone in the defence of free speech.
An important milestone in the history of tennis was the decision of the All England Croquet Club to set aside one of its lawns at Wimbledon for tennis, which soon proved so popular that the club changed its name to the All England Croquet and Lawn Tennis Club.
But aside from making a bunch of rich guys in suits very happy, what does this milestone really mean?
Fantasy leagues aside, football fans rarely value individual accomplishments above victories, which is why Manning's 50,000-yard milestone meant little to fans who wanted the Colts to remain undefeated.
Aside from the 34-year hiatus in approval of construction, the commission's action will be a milestone in some other ways.
