There are only limited ways to quell sleazy rumor-mongering when it gains traction.
And it gained traction when Mr. Ratner handed Frank Gehry — whose celebrity has reached the point where he now has a signature jewelry line at Tiffany — the commissions for Atlantic Yards, a 22-acre project involving a basketball arena, hotel, and housing and retail spaces in Brooklyn, and Beekman Street Tower, a 75-story apartment building in Lower Manhattan.
When Fyre Festival was first announced, it gained traction from those infamous "orange squares," posted by some of the world's most significant influencers.
The e-mail claim has been circulating for some time, but it gained traction last month when a consumer advocacy group published a small independent study of 33 red lipsticks from various brands.
It gains traction at a time when "smart" electrical grid management systems are automatically diagnosing problems and emergencies, and reconfiguring responses to them.
Android will eat RIM's lunch and dinner when it finally gains traction in IT departments.
Once an event reaches a certain number of requests, MyMusicTaste gives users transparency about when the campaign started, when it began gaining traction and what the service plans to do next.
Adelaide valiantly tried to reel in the deficit but poor goalkicking cruelled them, particularly in the second stanza when they gained traction in field play for no scoreboard reward with five consecutive behinds.
The four-year-old site, run by Mr. Levin, a lawyer and producer, gained traction when it uncovered the details of Mel Gibson's drunken driving arrest in 2006.
Fees were not an issue when debit cards first gained traction in the 1980s.
Though there have been many rumblings about the rise of men's style before – particularly during the 1990s, when the term metrosexual gained traction – current trends suggest something more substantial.
