But I also ran into a bunch of annoying bugs and limitations, problems its maker readily acknowledges and says it is working on solving.

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Iovate Health Sciences was also a big rival but ran into some regulatory issues that MusclePharm strives hard to avoid, employing a former assistant surgeon general and FDA director with more than 20 years of experience on its staff.

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Supporters of her successor, Fidel Ramos, had also wanted to tinker with the constitution but ran into fierce resistance.

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When Sony finally ran into an innovation that was disruptive not only to the market but also to Sony itself, then they stumbled.

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Townsend's book had the benefit not only of being jargon-free, but also of being easily digestible it ran to around 250 pages and was broken up into small sections, none of which was longer than three pages.

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