An elderly retired Cape Verdean laborer, Ventura (playing himself), wanders about as a sort of living memory of the neighborhood's "ghosts" and sees his longtime friend, a guard in Lisbon's Gulbenkian Museum (which Ventura helped to build), gain a foothold on middle-class comforts, even as one of Ventura's own long-ago love letters to his wife takes on the status of local legend.
It hopes to build a stronger foothold in the U.S. by partnering with Hobbico, one of the country's largest airplane model distributors.
However, more capacity building of the public health system and NGOs, more operational and behavioural research, more policy discussion, and more partners are all needed to build on this foothold of successful programming.
They could see JEDI as a chance to establish a foothold in government that they could use to build out their cloud business in the private sector too.
PPC is particularly relevant for start-ups who may need to acquire quality leads quickly and have yet to build up their organic foothold.
The deal, perhaps the biggest in the market so far, will give SFX a major foothold on the global festival circuit as it tries to build a $1 billion media empire centered on dance.
The international forces are in Afghanistan to ensure al-Qaida does not regain a foothold and to ensure the Afghan people have the space to build some government infrastructure.
For companies eager to establish a foothold in the country, there are a number of other ways to build market presence, including an offshore – or fly-in — strategy.
EADS was prepared to invest in an American factory to build the tankers and saw the contract as a foothold in the biggest defence market.
Securing a foothold in New York is aimed at helping the tribe win federal approval to build a casino in Sullivan County, though federal regulators have long frowned upon casinos proposed outside of reservations.
