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.
Such sentiment drove markets up sharply in early January: for those who note milestones, the Dow Jones Industrial Average briefly passed 11,000, within 6% of its peak of 11,723, set six years ago at the height of the dotcom boom.
The rights organization noted the milestone was attributable to a number of efforts, including recent moves from major tech companies to implement HTTPS on their own properties.
Rebecca Rabinow, a curator in the Metropolitan Museum's department of Modern and contemporary art, noted other milestones included in the gift.
As he takes his final lap through the N.B.A., Jackson occasionally pauses to note a milestone, telling his assistant coaches, "This is our last time in Milwaukee".
The app's Google Play listing notes the milestone, and Ben Evans confirmed on Twitter.
It's good to pause to celebrate victories, toast accomplishments, note loss, mark milestones.
It was Mr. Lagerfeld's 54th couture collection for the house, a milestone noted by a man who doesn't easily observe anniversaries or birthdays.
Col. John G. Worman, Central Command's chief for exercises, noted a Persian Gulf milestone: For the first time, he said, the military of Iraq had been invited to participate in a regional exercise in Jordan next year, called Eager Lion 12, built around the threat of guerrilla warfare and terrorism.
Back in late December of last year, we noted a huge milestone for photo-sharing app Instagram: a million users.
