This would indicate that artists are often picked up fairly early in their social trajectory.

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With the upward economic, social and political trajectory of the continent, a new breed of African women continues to emerge.

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But for that shift to translate into broader political and social change, the planned trajectory of a film must go well beyond initial release stages.

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It certainly seems the disruptive innovation trajectory is happening in social enterprise technology.

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The SEC said it suspended trading to tamp down the well-worn scamster trick of buying publicly traded shells, launching them on an eye-catching new trajectory like green energy or social networking with a blizzard of press releases, and dumping millions of shares of stock on mullet investors before closing up shop.

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The trajectory of new media has been toward social interaction and away from podiums and pedestals.

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In reality, social media was never going to reverse the downward trajectory in the rate of job growth.

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Social media may be couched in zeroes and ones, but digital proliferation determined the trajectory and character of these all-too-real events.

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