Long neglected, it became the first German settlement in South West Africa when a Hamburg merchant, Franz Adolf Lüderitz, began trading operations and persuaded the German government in 1883 to place the territory under German protection.
In its third year of operation, Sambazon persuaded a few influential Los Angeles restaurants to invent açaí-laced dishes, hoping to create buzz about the fruit among urban foodies, and hustled an invitation to the 2003 Sundance Film Festival, where Ryan made smoothies for Jodie Foster and Mel Gibson.
He said American forces now needed to step up "psychological operations" to persuade the Iraqis to capitulate or surrender.
There is, however, a big difference between jawboning a regional public institution to lend more to a country in which it already has operations than persuading a risk-averse commercial bank in France, Germany or Italy to lend more to a country that it wants to permanently cut ties to.
His new exhibition, titled You're Only Young Twice, is a series of portraits done before, during and after operations, after he persuaded surgeons in London and Philadelphia to allow him to observe their work.
But Tories said that Cameron had sanctioned an aggressive operation to persuade wavering MPs to support the government.
One of its aims has been to forge a closer relationship with America and thereby secure greater American co-operation in persuading Taiwan not to move further towards a more explicit declaration of its independence from China.
Mark Harper, chief whip As chief whip, he is engaged in the Downing Street operation to persuade wavering Tory MPs to make sure they are on board with the prime minister.
Davutoglu said he was hopeful that Russia, wary of another Libyan-style, regime-changing Nato operation, might be persuaded to soften its anti-interventionist stance, once the scale of the impending humanitarian crisis became clear.
Sulla's response was totally unforeseen: he appealed to the army he had led in the Social War, which was still engaged in mopping-up operations in Campania, and persuaded them to march on Rome.
