Witnesses in the Nicaraguan airport, where the plane reportedly took off, gave detailed descriptions of its departure, including unusual secrecy and movements of military personnel, who sealed off the area during the loading of the plane.
As inflation ignited and farmland values rose, the Deere dealership took off, giving the Offutts both a steady stream of cash flow and a source of cheap equipment.
On the one hand, Delta's stock could take off, given its low price and lack of other near-term catalysts.
"We believe that Oracle is well positioned as the shift toward Internet-based applications begins to take off, given that its competitors are behind on their efforts," says BancBoston Robertson Stephens analyst Marshall Senk.
One surprising finding is that Yahoo!'s free photo service has been comparatively slow to take off, given that the company has a built-in market with the portal's 120 million users and a strategic partnership with Shutterfly, the much-hyped e-photo company chaired by Silicon Valley entrepreneur extraordinaire Jim Clark.
Additionally, the company plans to keep investing in common areas and strategic assets such as land and buildings that served originally as sales offices for the developer or commercial real estate that hasn't taken off given the negative spiral caused by the foreclosure and home abandonment.
Logitech sure thinks this networked audio thing is a trend that will take off, given its recent acquisition of Slim Devices, which would be a great name for a geeky card shark, but is also a network music player company that emphasizes audio quality over pesky things like price.
Evidence-based ethics is the newest empirical approach to bioethics inquiry, and while this method is still underdeveloped and the growing body of literature still small, there is good reason to expect this approach to really "take off" given the currency of "evidence based" approaches in so many professional disciplines.
This frame, now called the browser, made the Web take off, giving a puppet theater to programmers with many different obsessions.
Help telemedicine take off, giving doctors and patients easier ways to interact at lower cost than in traditional office visits. .
