Back in the 1950s Michaels recognized the fabulous future ahead of the then nascent mutual funds industry.
Al Gore earned a reputation as a technology specialist, focusing on issues including arms control and funding for the then nascent internet.
Not only did they reenact their car bombings in South America, they also expanded their terror nexus to the then nascent Sunni Wahabist al-Qaida organization.
Microsoft wanted to put the game Bungie was developing, Halo, on its then-nascent XBox gaming console.
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Wayne Huizenga in 1986 while in search of an investor in the then-nascent Blockbuster Entertainment.
Google ( GOOG - news - people ), which vaulted the then-nascent search service into the mainstream.
Would it do for the Japanese aircraft manufacturing industry what Detroit had done several decades earlier for Tokyo's then-nascent automobile industry?
In a Financial Times op-ed Monday, former Barclays CEO Martin Taylor relates a tale about the run-up to the Russian ruble crisis of 2008, when he claims that Diamond and traders he led at the then-nascent Barclays Capital dishonestly claimed certain counterparties were Swiss or American in order to get around limits on country exposure.
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Twenty-five years ago, I reported a story for NBC News about the nascent market for selling kidneys that was then budding in India.
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It was in the nascent stages of the Carter Administration, when Brady Tyson, deputy to then UN Ambassador Andrew Young, predicted openly that human rights would be used to help leftist revolutionaries in the western hemisphere.
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Then Samsung was also running Symbian OS, but withdrew from the consortium, picked up the nascent Android OS, and started out on the path that took them to the number one slot in the smartphone market.
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Since then an intragovernmental group has been set up on retail, but industry executives say it is at a nascent stage.
The 1891 hubbub of impending doom for the (nascent) newspaper powers is especially interesting in light of the similar goings-on when radio and then television came onto the scene.
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