It signals that the early, elated period of trading whose milestones including the launch of Coinbase and the growth of a vibrant (if often shady) professional ecosystem is over.
I have enough close friends with children whose milestones have, like Hannah's, not been reached, to know that I am not the only one who finds birthdays hard.
Nasser's repression also aroused more militant ideologies, the most infamous of which were the ideas declared by Sayyid Qutb, whose book Milestones – written during incarceration under Nasser – inspired generations in the concepts of fighting against the Jahiliyyah (those of a pre-Islamic ignorance) within the framework of Jihad, in both its mental and physical capacities.
Claudia McMurray, an assistant secretary of state, called it a clear statement that "destructive fishing practices should stop"—while Dorothy Zbicz, a diplomat-turned-conservation-pundit, hailed the resolution as a "milestone" whose moral effect would be stronger than its non-binding language suggests.
If you suspend disbelief on what percentage are spambots, Twitter has 200 million users whose #1 Twitter milestone is "Just setting up my Twttr" or the day they set up and account.
The emergence of complex metabolism in the RNA world [ 2- 4] (an age when RNA served as both information carrier and enzyme) is one such milestone, whose place in the order of events has not yet been determined.
RIFFLE back through your memories, and you're bound to recall an old friend who has been there through all the milestones, whose very name is synonymous with simpler times.
The passage of history is often marked by milestones whose significance lies less in the events they commemorate then it does in the underlying trends that they confirm and validate.
We assumed as reference indicators and benchmarks the one proposed by the AAP and JCIH whose statements are milestones recognised worldwide in the development of UNHS programs.
One of the editors (whose list of milestones displays the clinical emphasis of the book) has provided a nice historical summary.
