• There are I think some positive things going on in the rural economy, things that have happened as a result of some of the initiatives the President has pushed and Congress has passed, including investments in clean energy -- the largest investments in clean energy development in history that have been of assistance to rural industries.

    WHITEHOUSE: Press Briefing

  • That said, it's easy to forget that the latter-day dominance of the small-cast play is a fairly recent development in theatrical history.

    WSJ: Theater Once Drew Crowds Onstage, Too | Sightings by Terry Teachout

  • The possible sale of Manchester United to BSkyB is the latest development in the history of one of the soccer world's most glamorous and famous clubs.

    BBC: Fast facts on Man Utd

  • The move will come as a major embarrassment to the European Tour who had rebranded itself around the sponsorship and described the launch of the Race to Dubai as the most significant development in its history.

    CNN: Race to Dubai suffers prize money crisis

  • The development of technology in history has almost always been motivated by making tasks easier on humans as well as to solve existing problems that we have.

    FORBES: Is Social Media Shortening Our Attention Span?

  • He's claiming this is the largest EA dev commitment in their history with 25 titles in development.

    ENGADGET: & Joystiq's live coverage of Microsoft's Xbox 360 E3 event

  • This marks a crucial development in the Internet's history: Far from being a place where geeks go to hang out with other geeks, the Internet is now as vital a part of the average college student's world as Spring Break.

    CNN: Will the 2008 USA election be won on Facebook?

  • Holloway told CNN.com this is one of the biggest real estate development phases in the city's history.

    CNN: Tale of two cities: Biloxi and New Orleans

  • Again, I hate to generalize across a whole series of countries at different stages in their political development and their history.

    WHITEHOUSE: Press Briefing

  • Perhaps the greatest achievement in this workshop, aside from the linkage of broadcast archive people, was the realization that their materials have an impact in the history and development of their country.

    UNESCO: Education

  • Rajiv Shah: Global philanthropy has played a critical role in the history of development, and is responsible for catalyzing a number of the breakthrough innovations that have transformed lives across the developing world.

    FORBES: USAID Chief Rajiv Shah Talks Philanthropy, Innovation, Transparency and More

  • In a cavernous sweltering hall on the former Howard U.S. Air Force Base, all of Panama's ministers and President Martin Torrijos gathered to sign an agreement to construct what will become one of the largest development projects in the country's history.

    NPR: Panama's Exploding Economy Attracts Investors

  • "This is the first time in the history of drug development that a compound has been tested first for prevention and then for treatment, " Dannenberg says.

    FORBES: Magazine Article

  • This is the first time in video gaming history a development team is going to let pubic see and be apart of a game from start to finish.

    FORBES: Connect

  • In The Prize, which won the Pulitzer Prize for nonfiction in 1992, Dan provides a comprehensive history of oil that traces the development of the industry from its beginnings in the 19th century when it began producing kerosene for lamps to the oil crisis of the 1970s, through to the Gulf War.

    FORBES: Oil and China

  • The development follows one of the weirdest scandals in the history of Silicon Valley.

    FORBES: Ex-HP Chair Avoids Jail

  • The United States and Brazil have a long history of partnership in delivering development assistance to maximize resources to fight poverty.

    WHITEHOUSE: Fact Sheet: The U.S.-Brazil Global Partnership Dialogue

  • The sector, he explains, is driven by collectors' interest in history, ornamental objects and the development of weapons.

    WSJ: Collecting: Antique Arms and Armor Auctions Recall Ancient Warriors

  • "Arrested Development is one of the finest American comedies in TV history and we are incredibly excited to bring it back for British and Irish fans, " said Ted Sarandos, Netflix Chief Content Officer.

    ENGADGET: Netflix fires back in UK streaming war, says it has Fox TV shows too, plus Arrested Development

  • The historically low levels of investment in research and development in the electric utility industry combined with an anemic history of adopting new technologies has convinced many people that the utility industry is constitutionally incapable of innovation.

    FORBES: East Coast Utility Flexes Innovation Muscle

  • With Darksiders 2 less than one day away from launch, I had a chance to speak with Madureira about his move from comic books to video games, Darksiders 2, and how a history in comic books impacted the development and style of the Darksiders franchise and its highly stylized, comic-book aesthetic.

    FORBES: Connect

  • Robert Kronenburg, professor of architecture at the UK's University of Liverpool and author of " Houses in Motion: The Genesis, History and Development of the Portable Building, " says sustainability is "very, very crucial" and is driving architectural design more and more.

    CNN: New container home design thinks outside the box

  • The deadline is the latest development in one of the largest Ponzi schemes in U.S. history.

    NPR: Court Tries To Reach Deals With NC Ponzi 'Winners'

  • Vale and his colleagues are studying orchids throughout the Greater Antilles (Cuba, Jamaica, Hispaniola, Puerto Rico) to reconstruct their evolutionary history and analyze the effect of pollinators in their development.

    MSN: Caribbean beauties: Two new orchid species found

  • In the Philips wing for instance, Gerrit Berckheyde's "The 'Golden Bend' in the Herengracht" (1671-72), a shimmering, timeless image of one of Amsterdam's principal canals and a recent acquisition, was tastelessly used as a prop in a didactic display on the history of Dutch urban development.

    WSJ: A Great Museum Enters a New Golden Age | Rijksmuseum | Rembrandt | Vermeer | By Jonathan Lopez

  • That big caveat aside, the report somewhat persuasively puts the Chinese economy in context by comparing market penetration in various sectors with the history of U.S. economic development.

    FORBES: The Biggest Winner In China In 2015? E-Commerce.

  • As well as a compelling portrait of an often obnoxious genius, he gives us a lively history of the development of consumer technology over the last three decades in which two very different philosophies, open and closed, battle for supremacy in a contest which is still undecided.

    BBC: Jony Ive and the future of Apple

  • The report, from the United Nations Development Fund for Women (Unifem), acknowledges that it is deeply embedded in the history and traditions of many societies.

    BBC: By South Asia Correspondent Mike Wooldridge

  • Perhaps because of blinkered bosses, Britain has a history of underinvestment by both business and government, especially in research and development.

    ECONOMIST: A lost opportunity

  • Development and assembly of the International Space Station now culminates the largest, most complex initiative in human history, a testament to great potentials and peaceful benefits of multi-national collaboration.

    FORBES: Does The United States Still Care About Space Leadership?

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