Sentences with phrase «aleix vidal»

Most founders use their time in Santiago as a sabbatical, during which they learn the startup ropes from previous participants who have stayed put in Chile — 132 graduates so far, according to Start - Up Chile's executive director, Sebastian Vidal.

she worked at Fruteria Vidal Pons, a greengrocer in Barcelona's Boqueria market off Las Ramblas.

Executive chef Marc Vidal pays tribute to his roots in Barcelona by incorporating churro hybrids into every dessert.

While in China I met Guillaume Vidal, a Frenchman who also worked in lighting.

Vidal is expecting about 5,000 attendees, which he considers a big success given that he has spent nothing on marketing.

The 26 - year - old Vidal got his start by posting instructional dance videos to the site.

Vidal says he mainly earns money by product placement, with companies such as Intel, Pepsi and Canon signing on to have their products appear in his videos.

«There's the buffer as in loading, but also we're giving videos a bit of a boost... we're buffing them up,» Vidal says.

Vidal says he's worked with more than a dozen Fortune 500 companies and that his videos have cumulatively amassed more than 100 million views.

From the outset, Vidal knew he'd need two specific partners — YouTube and TIFF — to make a go of it.»

In his most recent interview to date, Vidal Sassoon has a highly personal and moving discussion with CNBC Meets presenter Tania Bryer.

Now, clearly, not all of us will be able to get Gore Vidal and the Whiffenpoofs at our networking party, but I'm guessing that Keith didn't have them at his first party either.

According to the folks who bring you Vidal Sassoon hair dryers, about $ 84 million a year

«A handful of businesses break through the stratosphere and make billions of dollars overnight,» says Vidal.

Projections (which proved true) showed that first - year sales of Vidal Sassoon products would be greater than Helen of Troy's entire professional line.

Helen of Troy has paid a total of $ 6 million — over and above royalties — to retain its rights to the Vidal Sassoon name until the year 2030.

Then in 1985 Procter & Gamble acquired Richardson - Vicks and decided to spend $ 30 million a year — about double R - V's budget — advertising Vidal Sassoon shampoos and conditioners.

We'd use the Vidal Sassoon name for the mass market, and reserve Helen of Troy for the shops.»

By becoming a licensee, Rubin would be known — if he were known at all — as a man who sold Vidal Sassoon products.

Vidal Sassoon owned the name.

«The community is sometimes more important than the cash we provide,» says Start - Up Chile's assistant director Sebastian Vidal.

«Some of the things that still need to be improved to make the Chilean entrepreneurial ecosystem stronger are the local VCs approach to startups and the fear of failure that's still common in our country,» says Vidal.

If there is one person who is the embodiment of hair care in the United States, he's it,» says a buyer for one major retail chain, who has cut down the number of Clairol products he carries to create space for the Vidal Sassoon line.

Two or three times a week, a Hollywood executive or reality - show producer calls Vidal Herrera and asks him to appear on TV or to rent out his office for use as a location.

«After Jordan's two brothers, Vidal and Kevon, along with their two friends, were forced to experience this tragedy up close as occupants of the car, they were immediately treated as common criminals by other officers; manhandled, intimidated and arrested, while their brother lay dying in the front seat,» a statement released by the Edwards family said.

The Italian architect Renato Vidal's MADI home is an A-frame house that can go up in under seven hours with the help of a crane and a three - person construction crew.

Vidal offers MADI homes in three sizes: 290, 603, or 904 square feet.

In his most recent interview to date, Vidal Sassoon has a highly personal and moving discussion with CNBC Meets presenter Tania Bryer in which he talks about his impoverished childhood, his years in a Jewish orphanage in the East End of London and candidly about how his mother had to hand him and his brother over, as she could not afford to look after them during the Depression.

A few days later, officials said, DeLaurentis was called to a meeting with Josefina Vidal, the senior diplomat who had led the Cuban team that negotiated the normalization of relations with the US.

One key thing Chile did to help attract international attention as a start - up hub was open its doors to foreign entrepreneurs as other countries were shutting theirs, said Sebastian Vidal, executive director of Start - Up Chile.

The two main benefits were 40K equity and the second was a one - year working visa,» Vidal said.

REUTERS / Eric Vidal

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«The amount of effort being expended on this is tremendous,» said Vicki Vidal, a lobbyist for the Mortgage Bankers Association.

And yet Mr. Buckley opines that the likes of Pat Buchanan and Gore Vidal would have been more severely and generally censured for their anti-Semitic delinquencies, say, ten years ago.

Buckley observes, «Anyone who lies about Mr. Vidal is doing him a kindness.»)

(He notes that Vidal complains that he has been lied about, that people have misrepresented his views.

«The fact that the oath is optional will be communicated in honor lessons, leadership lessons, and religious respect lessons during the summer (cadet basic military training) so all trainees will understand prior to taking the Cadet Honor Oath that the final clause will be completely optional,» said Vidal.

In Gore Vidal's novel Lincoln, the abolitionist Senator Wade says to the president: «There is no doubt in my mind as to the justice of our cause and the evil of theirs.»

Denying the Holocaust: The Growing Assault on Truth and Memoryby deborah lipstadt free press, 278 pages, $ 22.95 Assassins of the Memory: Essays on the Denial of the Holocaust by pierre vidal - naquet, translated by jeffery mehlman columbia university press, 205 pages, $ 27.50 Ever since the end of....

While I'm not sure the syllogism above would withstand severe logical examination, it crystallizes my own more diffuse reflections on the failure of two well - established writers in two unusually inept and ugly books, Live From Golgotha, by Gore Vidal, and Jesus: A Life, by A.N. Wilson.

Not so, says Gore Vidal, whose blurted confession, some tell me, matches something they have felt all along.

Acknowledging the difficulty of identifying anti-Semitism, Buckley nevertheless boldly concludes that he has found anti-Semitism in the writings of some of his colleagues on the political right as well as among those on the left such as Gore Vidal.

Lipstadt and Vidal - Naquet do a good job of cataloging and refuting the principle claims and techniques of the deniers.

Vidal - Naquet's reply to Robert Faurisson applies with equal validity to Bradley Smith: «We do not «debate» him; we demonstrate the mechanisms of his lies, which may be methodologically useful for the younger generations.»

One of the most disturbing features about the human heart, its tendency toward jealousy, leaped out at me once in a line by novelist Gore Vidal: «Every time a friend succeeds, I die a little.»

Assassins of Memory by Pierre Vidal - Naquet, a French classicist, contains shrewd and learned dissections of the denial literature, with special attention to its rhetorical devices and deceptions.

But as both texts make clear, all writers currently adopting the brand name «Holocaust revisionism» defy or corrupt the recognized canons of historiographic investigation and truth; they distort and manipulate the historical record to create usable falsehoods that can advance the agenda of «an extreme right - wing that sees itself as heir to Nazism and dreams of its rehabilitation» (Vidal - Naquet).

Of course, that possibility gives special poignance to Vidal - Naquet's concluding words: «Will truth have the last word?

Vidal - Naquet summarizes the situation well: