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...Northern counties such as Las Hurdes, the subject of Luis Buñuel’s 1933 documentary Land Without Bread, and luscious La Vera, site of the Emperor Carlos V’s monastery-retirement home at Yuste, are best enjoyed...
...Carlos Rosado de Carvalho, an economics commentator and professor at the Catholic University of Luanda, is sceptical of the official agenda....
...“I bought it immediately from Vera’s mother.”...
...Carlos Díaz and Héctor Noas are two storied names in Cuban theatre, full of tales. We drink Chilean carménère over a spread of vegetarian stews and salads....
...Ink is already looking at different approaches, talking to Virgin Atlantic about the possibility of a single-use newspaper to replace its excellent Vera magazine....
...Vera and Mafalda, two of the Arrivabenes’ four daughters, joined us....
...“This has allowed for competition in a way we never had it before,” says Vera Songwe, executive secretary of the UN Economic Commission for Africa. Part of the rising interest is opportunistic....
...But Carlos Toranzo, a La Paz-based political economist, says the trend is part of a much broader phenomenon....
...Aside from his own line, which is growing, this season he also made the shoes for Donna Karan’s show, DVF’s (left, look at the feet) and Vera Wang’s, and lent his own fringed boots to Juan-Carlos Obando....
...“Designer labels are often cheaper abroad, much cheaper,” said Vera Lopes, head of the Brazilian chapter of the Luxury Marketing Council. “So why buy here?...
...But America Movil, owned by the Mexican businessman Carlos Slim, saw more potential in Poland’s Polkomtel....
...That’s what’s driving markets across the board,” Kathryn Rooney Vera of Bulltick Capital Markets told Reuters. In Brazil, the Bovespa fell 0.54 per cent to 64,803.43, its lowest level in five weeks....
...Just ask Carlos Jereissati, the chief executive of Iguatemi Empresa de Shopping Centers, a company that runs 12 high-end malls....
...There is Vera Wang, who has carved herself a niche out of a darkly romantic view of the world expressed as an affinity with black chiffon, whether it is cut in a man’s vest or wafting gracefully in a cocktail...
...As an up-close-and- harrowing drama about illegal abortion, its strongest scenes make Vera Drake seem like Mary Poppins. As a portrait of the Ceausescu era it is art as social history....
...Local manufacturing and marketing also needs to be ramped up, so more pieces can be produced and sold at lower prices, says Vera Santiago, an agent who exports Brazilian furniture....
...Thursday afternoon brought Vera Wang tickets and a chance encounter with an investor (we haven’t signed anything, so we can’t reveal his name) who had been following our progress in these very pages....
...In Spain, the “vera efigie” - the true portrait - was a sacred, fetishistic object: not long before El Greco, the brothers of saintly Juan de la Magdelan, who commissioned a likeness of his dead body, recounted...
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