Then there are the sacks of grain, representing months of labor by the villagers, that are raised into the air, like effigies on a floating temple, before disappearing.
The achievement of Ms. Carlos (then Walter Carlos) represented months of hard work; today one could scan Bach's music into notation software and replicate the feat in a few hours.
RIM says the Storm represents months of thinking about intuitive design.
For them, a fair win represents months of shuttling back and forth to a lab, helping to assemble the enormous three-part wooden or cardboard project boards that display a students results, and trying on what is often a kids first business suit.
The lineups on Wednesday represent several months of moves and countermoves by the networks' programmers, Leslie Moonves of CBS, a unit of Viacom, and Jeff Zucker of NBC, a unit of General Electric, who seem to be approaching the season like two gunslingers.
Although even those sums represent several months of earnings for many residents of Manfalut, which is in one of Egypt's poorest regions, many denounced them as insultingly paltry.
Ray Irani, the long-serving chairman of Occidental Petroleum, got $391,000 in "tax and financial planning" last year, which would represent eight months of work by a $300-an-hour 300-an-hour 300-an-hour financial
The findings represent two months' of work by the Appurify team, which incidentally, now includes those at cisimple, a competing app testing firm which joined Appurify via acquisition in August.
Eric Gillin, the digital general manager for Condé Nast Traveler (as well as Architectural Digest and the company's Food Innovation Group), said that those three sections represent "12 months of research" into the best way to organize all the content on the site.
"The purpose of this swap is that, independent of the conditions prevailing in the international financial market, we will have $30bn available which would represent eight months of exports from Brazil to China and 10 months of imports to Brazil from China," he said.
