How many guitarists are so admired that they are mentioned, by name, in a work of fiction? Mark Knopfler has an extraordinary ability to make a Schecter Custom Stratocaster hoot and sing like angels on a Saturday night, exhausted from being good all week and needing a stiff drink.. So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish by Douglas Adams.
Development Stage. DEFINITION of 'Development Stage'. A company that is in a preliminary or early state of its corporate life. A development stage company is characterized by its focus on early-stage business activities, such as research and development, market research or construction of manufacturing facilities.
Puberty and the Tanner Stages - developed by Professor James M Tanner. Introduction. Adolescents experience several types of maturation, including cognitive (the development of formal operational. thought), psychosocial (the stages of adolescence), and biologic. The complex series of biologic transitions are known.