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He cites as a key personal influence the novel Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand, whose ideas picked up considerable traction among Silicon Valley entrepreneurs during the 1990s.
Since then, the story has picked up considerable steam and generated a tremendous amount of buzz online and in the press.
The idea to transfer the bridges to the authority has also been kicked around, but it has picked up considerable steam in recent months.
5.36pm GMT Sandy picks up surprising speed on approach to coast Guardian US forecaster Harry Enten observes that Hurricane Sandy has picked up considerable speed as it approaches the coast, going against most forecasts.
Behind the scenes at the summit meeting of nearly 150 heads of government and in separate sessions of Security Council members, Mr. Annan picked up considerable backing for his efforts to change the United Nations.
It was striking because the Republicans went so emphatically far, in terms of stagecraft and storytelling, to profess inclusiveness, and because we gays have been in the news rather a lot over the last year or so, as the march toward marriage equality picked up considerable velocity.
In the Southern states, peanuts are usually grown in rotation with cotton, on which BHC is extensively used, and the peanuts pick up considerable amounts of the insecticide.
But he's also picking up considerable support among Republican women: twenty per cent said that they supported him, compared to twelve per cent for Walker and eleven per cent for Bush.
It's a concept that isn't exactly new — Phonedeck switched up its tactics with a focus on contact management last month, and Disrupt NY finalist CallApp takes a very similar approach — but the Android-only application managed to pick up considerable early traction, and racked up over a million downloads since its initial launch.
