Last month, Adm. Mike Mullen, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff at the time, called the insurgents who attacked the American Embassy in the Afghan capital "a veritable arm" of the ISI, Pakistan's military intelligence service.
The facade was a veritable wedding cake, incorporating just about every molding, capital and dentilled cornice they could get out of the D.D. Badger ironworks catalog, and when it was all bolted together, the brothers capped it off with a big arched pediment.
Across the groups, they also eat wisely (a combination of local wine, plant-rich diets and moderate portions); with age, they become the veritable rock stars of their communities, accumulating social capital and perpetuating a sense of belonging and connection with their respective tribes.
In the 1960s it was Route 128 in Massachusetts, in the 1970s and 80s it was California's Silicon Valley; now venture capital is flowing into the Holy Land Israel a veritable petrie dish for high-tech startups.
EasyJet and Ryanair fly to Tallinn from various UK airports The Portuguese capital's often overlooked "back garden" is a veritable cauldron of tasty cultural pickings.
Pear, a popular seed-stage venture firm whose early bets include Guardant Health, Memebox, and Branch, hosted its fourth demo day in Woodside, Ca., last Thursday, and though it was a scorchingly hot afternoon at a largely outdoor venue, a veritable who's who of VCs showed up: Bryan Schreier of Sequoia Capital was there.
This year's edition is filled with photos of Israeli female soldiers, members of the National Women's Soccer League, and the the town of Vallejo, the former capital of California, and so much more, from a veritable horde of incredible female photographers.
As the big event approached on Saturday night, Baku, the capital of this small, oil-rich former Soviet republic, went into a veritable lockdown.
There's a veritable tonne of fintech startups and solutions aimed at digitizing payments already and Singapore, the hub for venture capital and a global financial market, has tended to be a first stop for most.
