" Esprit said one of its suppliers had suggested shifting some production to the southeast; Esprit declined, "due to the risk of sending employees into a zone of instability.
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HONG KONG (Reuters) - Fashion group Esprit Holdings Ltd (0330.
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It wasn't easy, but there was an esprit de corps.
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Other market movers in Asia included Hong Kong's Esprit Holdings.
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It has exuberance and color and energy and esprit de corps.
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This, he argued, would foster esprit de corps and curb cronyism.
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This is just from Esprit, and the shirt is Emanuel Berg.
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There are 2m policemen and women and their esprit de corps matters.
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Prior to launching Forward Partners, Brisbourne was a partner at Draper Esprit.
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Opening Ceremony isn't just all about cool collaborations with Vans and Esprit.
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To me, it feels very Esprit, but it also feels very us.
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Existing shareholders Vitruvian Partners, Draper Esprit, Index Ventures and Northzone also contributed.
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She also remembered the esprit de corps he instilled among the singers.
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The gated enclaves are considered safe havens that build esprit de corps.
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It drives an esprit de corps within the IT, operations and security teams.
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Your esprit de l'escalier doesn't kick in until you're well out the door.
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Yet he badly politicized a firm long unified by a special esprit de corps.
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She's really getting into the French esprit with this look, and we're loving it.
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Draper Esprit led the round with NextWorld Capital, Balderton Capital and Newfund also participating.
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It employs 6,900 workers to make garments for H&M, Zara, Mango and Esprit.
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He designed showrooms for Esprit and seminal furniture for Knoll and housewares for Alessi.
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In 2013, Musk spend nearly $1 million on a Lotus Esprit driven by 007.
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"Those conversations are always the most valuable for building an esprit de corps," he said.
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Other high-profile brands that did well include H&M, Esprit, Banana Republic and Gap.
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Musk's Cybertruck has an intensely angular design that echos that of the white Lotus Esprit.
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Esprit Park, a public green space that was Esprit's corporate garden, is across the street.
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Startup: PremFinaCited by these VCs: Vinoth Jayakumar, investment director, Draper EspritIn the Draper Esprit portfolio?
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Clinton who helped found the clothing brand Esprit, would not comment on the financial arrangement.
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Esprit said it recently found more unregistered Syrian adults – but not children – at a supplier factory.
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The round is led by existing investor Draper Esprit, alongside a number of previous Perkbox angels.
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Several new institutions, including Draper Esprit and ADV, joined the ranks of the fund's existing LPs.
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Elon Musk spent close to $100,000 at a London auction to purchase the 1976 Lotus Esprit.
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The short film details the Esprit conference, a four-day convention in Tacoma, WA, for transgender women.
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If you type in 007, it'll show the Lotus Esprit sub and a "Depth" drop-down menu.
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However, later stage rounds have been shut for these investors, something Draper Esprit is hoping to change.
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Its small ship Crystal Esprit will also be diverted from scheduled Turkish stops in April and November.
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The round is being led by Oxford Capital Partners, and Draper Esprit, with Partech Ventures also participating.
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Financial institutions have demonstrated an unusual level of esprit de corps when it comes to new technology.
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Ledger just raised an impressive Series B round of $703 million (€61 million), led by Draper Esprit.
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Or we could call it esprit, and that might entail panache, éclat, or, antithetically, despondency, dysphoria, ire.
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" Vishal Gulati, Partner at Draper Esprit, comments that they were attracted by the "digital technology hotbed of Scandinavia.
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Draper Esprit acquires a decent portfolio at a stroke and Seedcamp now gets access to later stage funds.
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Shares of Esprit have fallen 26.3 percent so far this year after a 31.4 percent drop in 2017.
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Shares of Esprit have risen 30.8 percent so far this year after a 62.74 percent plunge in 2018.
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The charm of the work lies in the international esprit de corps and in hints of self-mockery.
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The round was led by Draper Esprit, with participation also from Karma Ventures and Harbert European Growth Capital.
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Peu de temps après, l'inspecteur Gamache prenait forme dans son esprit, sans toutefois qu'elle lui trouve un nom.
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For Ms. Aris, who had designed for the contemporary label Esprit, this was a different way of working.
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I understand that you value your collective esprit; you don't want to be a monkey on anyone's back.
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Led by Northzone, the round also included Sienna Capital, existing investors, including Draper Esprit, Backed and Kindred, and others.
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It has financial backing from Bernard Arnault, head of LVMH and the likes of DFJ Esprit and Accel Partners.
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Esprit had in January flagged a net loss of up to HK$980 million for the July-December period.
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Draper Esprit, the publicly listed VC firm based in London, announced its investment in Episode 1 back in October.
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Simon Cook, CEO of European venture capital firm Draper Esprit, agreed that passion was a make-or-break quality.
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What is known is that alarm over dying oaks has instilled in coastal residents a new esprit de corps.
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Backers of the fund include institutional investors such as Bpifrance, Draper Esprit, the European Investment Fund and Isomer Capital.
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It's well-intentioned, but all this you-go-girl esprit de corps is beginning to ring a little hollow.
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And it led her, in 2004, to open a cooking school called Esprit Cuisine that focused on organic ingredients.
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Complimentary water sports equipment and amenities on Crystal Cruises' Crystal Esprit yacht include jet skis, kayaks and paddle boards.
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Meanwhile Draper Esprit, a publicly floated VC, yesterday reported 44% annualised growth across their portfolio over the past 6 months.
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It remains to be seen whether that esprit de corps can absorb such a sharp-edged personality as Mr Perkins.
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Draper Esprit also backed Lifesum for the first time, making its first investment since going public in London last month.
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"Bill Barr has decimated the esprit de corps and the rule of law in the Department of Justice," Rossi said.
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Draper Esprit has to date built up a strong portfolio of fintech startups that includes Revolut, N26, TransferWise and Freetrade.
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The round was led by London-based Dawn Capital, which was joined by existing investors Sunstone Capital, DFJ Esprit and Speedinvest.
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Now, Opening Ceremony is really taking us back by reviving the bold colors and loud patterns of '80s and '90s Esprit.
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With its new Crystal Esprit, the luxury line adds a third and entirely new boutique class of ship to its fleet.
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The round is being led by publicly-listed VC Draper Esprit, with participation from previous investors Kindred, Frontline Ventures, and Backed.
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The military is no longer the secularist stronghold with a strong esprit de corps and sense of mission it once was.
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Esprit is undergoing a multi-year revamp that includes store closures, price adjustments, new return policies, and technology and distribution upgrades.
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Esprit Holdings had in January flagged of a net loss of up to HK$980 million for the July-December period.
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Last month, Esprit said Britain's vote to leave the European Union could affect consumer sentiment in its key markets in Europe.
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While the Scandinavian teams might lack — outside of Ibrahimovic — individual flair and hubris, they compensate with esprit de corps and athleticism.
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Esprit de Corps gave me purpose, treated me like I mattered and worked with me when I was slow to understand.
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Aboard the 62-guest Crystal Esprit, the culinary concept centers around the local ingredients of the Seychelles and the Mediterranean coast.
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Too many of the translations go overboard with vaudeville jokes and coarse wit rather than capture the 'esprit' of the original.
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It's the brainchild of Kristine McDivitt Tompkins and her husband, Douglas Tompkins, who founded The North Face and Esprit clothing companies.
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Freetrade is headquartered in London and has raised $20.4 million from venture capital backers such as Draper Esprit and through crowdfunding.
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Back in 2013, he paid $920,000 at an auction for the Lotus Esprit submarine car used in a James Bond movie.
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Supply chains for Muji and Uniqlo depend on Xinjiang, and companies such as H & M, Esprit and Adidas use Xinjiang cotton.
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Five thousand miles later, the group reached their final destination in the Mediterranean, where they met the Crystal Esprit cruise ship.
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Leading the round are Accelerated Digital Ventures, and Draper Esprit, with participation from European VCs Oxford Capital, Partech Ventures, and Seventure Partners.
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The round was led by publicly listed London venture capital firm Draper Esprit and Cathay Innovation, with the support of Salesforce Ventures.
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All that's really missing is Edward's 1989 Lotus Esprit to whisk them away to his home away from home, the Beverly Wilshire.
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Yet a sense of easy French esprit seemed more than ever a fantasy in light of the tragic events of the day.
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"The French have a great 'esprit critique,' which is great in politics and humanities, but not particularly helpful for art," he said.
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The funding is being led by Draper Esprit, with participation also from existing investors Lloyds Banking Group, IQ Capital, Backed and Playfair.
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In 1948, with permission, he republished essays by Sartre, Camus and other intellectuals that had first appeared in the polemical journal Esprit.
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In the biggest showdown of his career, Fury beat Klitschko in front of 55,000 people in the Esprit Arena in Düsseldorf, Germany.
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Before leading the syndicate, Dibner was a partner at London-based venture capital firm DFJ Esprit, which he departed in March 2015.
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Every spring since 20103, the annual Esprit conference brings together transgender women in their 50s, 60s, and 70s from all over the country.
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In total, Draper Esprit owns minority interest in 24 companies which as of December 31, 2015, had an aggregate value of £74.8 million.
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Draper Esprit portfolio's last reported NAV was £23.5 million (€26.3 million), resulting in an increase of £5.6 million (€6.3 million) (~7p per share).
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Draper Esprit, the publicly-listed VC firm based in London, is putting down further roots across Europe in cooperation with German VC Earlybird.
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" It was another version of the halo effect he'd seen at Esprit: "You start with the chefs and you work your way down.
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The 1976 Lotus Esprit submarine is not even the most expensive car from a James Bond film to ever go up for auction.
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Draper, the MIT spin-off engineering lab, is famed for developing the Apollo 11 Guidance Computer (not Draper Esprit, I hasten to add).
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The analogy isn't meant to compare the mission types but rather the sense of independence from Big Army, and the esprit de corps therein.
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Despite these awful statistics, ultimately, each moment at Esprit featured in The Convention is a celebration of being utterly and unapologetically true to yourself.
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The electric truck's angular body is based in part on a 1976 Lotus Esprit sports car Musk bought in 2013 for nearly $1 million.
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The source of the European team's surprisingly strong esprit de corps is in that disparity and in that desire to create a true rivalry.
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Ms. Quéniaux's presence was noted at premieres, and she became a regular companion, along with other women, to the composer Daniel-François-Esprit Auber.
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"That's my mission set: to build that esprit and get that team on the field," Mr. Pompeo said, a promise he has often repeated.
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One afternoon at Scotland Yard, Neville arranged an awards ceremony at which he commended CCTV operators, in an effort to foster esprit de corps.
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It is inarguably a song about the Superbowl, with an esprit de corps that brings to mind a highschool marching band and color guard rally.
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Three years ago, Musk bought the Lotus Esprit car from James Bond's "The Spy Who Loved Me" so he could turn it into a submarine.
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We have yet to see Musk successfully transform it into a submarine, but Model S drivers found an easter egg referencing the iconic Lotus Esprit.
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ByFounders' other institutional investors are Isomer Capital, Draper Esprit, Digital Garage, Danske Bank, as well as a number of prominent family businesses from the Nordics.
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Separately, Seedcamp recently cashed in the rest of its stake in TransferWise as part of selling its first two funds to London VC Draper Esprit.
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In 2013, he bought James Bond's submarine car (a custom Lotus Esprit) and said he planned to upgrade it with one of his electric powertrains.
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The round includes a $7.5 million investment from Draper Esprit, the U.K. publicly listed venture capital firm, along with previously announced equity crowdfunding via Crowdcube.
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"Freetrade are on a mission to open up investment opportunities for everyone, as are we," says Simon Cook, CEO of Draper Esprit, in a statement.
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Diplo in an ESPRIT crew neck smoking a hookah in Beirut with that windswept hair feels like something out of Tears For Fears unreleased video.
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Draper Esprit has joined the revolution for early stage investing with our EIS angel network and our investments in crowdfunding platforms: Crowdcube, Unbound, and Seedrs.
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The UK-based fintech's Series B funding round was led by Draper Esprit, and included Lloyds Banking Group, IQ Capital, and Playfair, according to TechCrunch.
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In winter, St. John's high season, Esprit Villa has been rented for $3,900 to $4,400 a week for up to six people, Ms. Courlas said.
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More in virtual currency news: Ledger, a specialist in blockchain security technology, has raised $75 million in a fund-raising round led by Draper Esprit.
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The Convention is an intimate portrayal of Esprit and its participants, many of whom hide their true identities from their families for a variety of reasons.
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Draper Esprit is already an investor/LP in a number of other European early-stage funds, including pre-seed and seed investor Seedcamp, and Episode 1.
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Cook is the CEO of Draper Esprit, a publicly listed venture capital firm that has taken an innovative approach to acquiring stakes in promising European startups.
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Angular Ventures, led by Gil Dibner (ex-Index Ventures and DFJ Esprit), is raising up to $25 million for its debut fund, per an SEC filing.
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The initiative is the brainchild of the American founders of the North Face and Esprit clothing companies, who began buying large areas of Patagonia in 1991.
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Meg St-Esprit writes from her Pittsburgh home about parenting, education and community development and sometimes muses about the antics of her four children on Twitter.
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Here, along the Rue de Saint-Esprit (now called Rue du Docteur Proust) is the former home of his aunt and uncle, Jules and Élisabeth Amiot.
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In 2013, Musk bought the Lotus Esprit submarine car that's used in the James Bond movie "The Spy Who Loved Me." Musk paid $920,000 at auction.
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In addition, Draper is taking a minority stake in the management company of Earlybird Fund VI via the issuing of new Draper Esprit shares to Earlybird partners.
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But, one of our favorites has to be Opening Ceremony's collaboration with Esprit, which, if you ask us, put the old-school favorite back on the map.
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DFJ Esprit led the Series B round, and was joined by FirstMark Capital, Cathay Innovation, Korelya Capital and return backers CapHorn Invest, GDTRE and Digital Currency Group.
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I love this folded-paper aesthetic that emerged in the late '70s and early '80s, this sort of idea of faceted design: the DeLorean, the Lotus Esprit.
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The Series A round sees investors Draper Esprit topping up the £3.8 million ($4.9 million) Freetrade raised through crowdfunding earlier this year with an additional $7.5 million.
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The capital was raised through a Series B round, the second stage of financing for a company, and was led by European venture capital firm Draper Esprit.
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In 2013, for example, he bought the Lotus Esprit submarine car that's used in the James Bond movie "The Spy Who Loved Me." Musk paid $920,000 at auction.
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Vishal Gulati: Vishal serves as a venture partner specialising in digital health at DFJ Esprit, Europe's leading Silicon Valley style venture capital firm with over $1b under management.
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On Tuesday night, Bey and her ponytail slayed her Formation World Tour performance at the Esprit Arena in Düsseldorf, Germany, and people are still not over it.
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Crystal is arguably taking the deepest dive into luxury: Along with the ultra-luxury yacht Esprit, it launched Crystal Luxury Air, a private jet charter service, in April.
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These two animal drawings are just savage and self-aware enough to wobble with a deeply humanistic esprit fou that imagines the possession of an outrageous animal consciousness.
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She began going to a private school, Esprit de Corps Center for Learning, and became the first member of her family to graduate from high school and college.
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Musk earlier tweeted the design was partly influenced by the Lotus Esprit sportscar that doubled as a submarine in the 1970s 007 film "The Spy Who Loved Me".
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Musk earlier tweeted the design was partly influenced by the Lotus Esprit sportscar that doubled as a submarine in the 22022s 2500 film "The Spy Who Loved Me".
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" This is how The New York Times described the EPA shortly before Gorsuch resigned: "Once noted for its efficiency and esprit, the agency is now demoralized and virtually inert.
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As well as owning the hotel group, the BIA holds about 4 percent of London-listed digital tech venture capital firm Draper Esprit PLC which it acquired in 2018.
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I can already imagine the rebuttals about how "student athletes" (many would be more accurately described as "athlete students") are essential to their colleges' morale and esprit de corps.
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PONT ST. ESPRIT, France — While few people question mandatory helmets in professional cycling and sunglasses are unlikely to disappear any time soon, the combination has an unfortunate side effect.
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According to the CECC, goods from international brands such as Nike, H&M, Esprit, Adidas and Calvin Klein may have been partially sourced from the region's forced labor facilities.
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"That's my mission set: to build that esprit and get that team on the field," Mr. Pompeo said on his first diplomatic trip overseas, a promise he has repeated.
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In a corresponding blog post, Draper Esprit reiterates that it invests in series A, B and beyond, whereas Earlybird is focused on seed stage to series A. So, whilst there is some overlap, it won't be hard for the two firms to divvy up deals and Cook told me Draper Esprit will share all relevant deal-flow with Earlybird and where it makes sense a partner at either firm will take the lead.
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But the problem, according to Simon Cook, chief executive and co-founder of Draper Esprit, is that retail investors are shut out from the fast-growing tech start-up space.
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While existing Graphcore investors Amadeus Capital Partners, Robert Bosch Venture Capital, C23 Ventures, Dell Technologies Capital, Draper Esprit, Foundation Capital, Pitango and Samsung Catalyst Fund also participated in the round.
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On Day 120 of the Trump presidency, Russia has become the administration's unintended but self-imposed mood music and narrative arc — sucking bandwith, draining esprit, looming as a potential calamity.
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But when one of the most expensive players on earth — Bale — commits to in such wholehearted fashion, it creates an esprit de corps that bonds the team like nothing else.
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So was the Lotus Esprit S1 from the 1977 James Bond flick "The Spy Who Loved Me." That film car transformed into a submarine — and Musk actually owns the original.
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"What he loved was the esprit de corps ... he was doing what he wanted and he always told us not to worry," they said in an interview with RTL radio.
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After the Lotus Esprit finished filming in "The Spy Who Loved Me," the car was kept in a storage unit in Long Island, New York for more than a decade.
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To that end, London-based Ad tech firm Grapeshot has raised $8.5m in funding from European-based investors IQ Capital, Draper Esprit, and Albion Ventures, bringing its total raised to $14.25m.
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Leading the round are London-based VC Draper Esprit, and Imperial Innovations, the publicly-listed investor with ties to Imperial College, University of Cambridge, University of Oxford, and University College London.
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Perkbox, a U.K. startup that offers an employee engagement platform to help companies retain employees (and customers), has picked up £25 million in backing from publicly listed European VC Draper Esprit.
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Simon Cook, CEO of Draper Esprit, echoes this sentiment, noting that today's audience is becoming immune to traditional advertising and increasingly prefer to discover products through friends and people they trust.
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Whereas the first drop was all about bold, primary hues, the latest installment of Esprit by Opening Ceremony narrows down the color story to three main themes: stripes, prints, and pastels.
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Esprit said its gross profit margin had slightly increased and operating expenses had further reduced, but were not sufficient to outweigh the negative impact of the revenue decline during the period.
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That change was Esprit de Corps Center for Learning, a private school in Jacksonville that was accessible to us only because of a scholarship that helped my godmother afford the tuition.
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Crystal Esprit, a 62-passenger yacht from the luxury cruise line Crystal Cruises, is running weekly itineraries to and from the port until mid-April, said Susan Robison, a company spokeswoman.
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Bindi Karia works as a venture partner at large London-based VC Draper Esprit, and has held positions in and around the tech industry for as long as she's been working.
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LONDON (Reuters) - London-based venture capital firm Draper Esprit said on Wednesday it had teamed up with its German peer Earlybird to co-invest in high growth technology companies across Europe.
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Angular Ventures, the early-stage enterprise and "deep tech"-focused VC firm founded by former DFJ Esprit partner Gil Dibner, is announcing the closing of its debut fund at $41 million.
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And the latest evidence of this is Stockholm-based Lifesum raising a $10 million funding round led by Nokia Growth Partners (NGP), with Draper Esprit, Bauer Media Group and SparkLabs Global Ventures.
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The funding round was led by Robert Bosch Venture Capital and included Samsung, as well as venture capital firms Amadeus Capital Partners, C4 Ventures, Draper Esprit, Foundation Capital and Pitango Venture Capital.
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Paul Dowling of Dreamstake Ventures leads a discussion with Steve King of social prediction startup Black Swan and Draper Esprit partner and long-time healthtech investor Vishal Gulati on the data challenge.
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"Initially, there was a real esprit de corps, and a lot of us came at the same time," said Mr. Paget, the founder of Language American Style, a company in Redding, Conn.
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" A few weeks after their party, CNBC met up with Damon and Cindy onboard the Crystal Esprit for a VIP tour, beginning with the ship's main lounge known as the "Cove Bar.
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Douglas Muzzio, a professor of political science at Baruch College, said the new "bicameral esprit de corps" was both impressive and a marked departure from Mr. Cuomo's first eight years in office.
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Herb's passion, zest for life, and insatiable investment in relationships made lasting and immeasurable impressions on all who knew him and will forever be the bedrock and esprit de corps of Southwest Airlines.
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However, explained Draper Esprit CEO and co-founder Simon Cook in a call this morning, the partnership is really about the two firm's leveraging the brand recognition of their broader and respective portfolios.
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It said ASOS, C&A, Esprit, GAP, Inditex, LC Waikiki, Mothercare, New Look, Otto Group, Primark, Tesco, Tchibo and White Stuff all now expect suppliers to support unregistered refugees to get work permits.
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ICEYE's previous investors, including True Ventures, Draper Nexus, Draper Associates, Seraphim Capital and Space Angels, all contributed to the latest round of funding, along with OTB Ventures, Tesi, Draper Esprit and Promus Ventures.
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Here is the theme entry list once again, with the moved letters highlighted: RADAR ANGER DAME CHEESE SENATE IDEA RHEA PERLMAN ESPRIT D'CORPS ASSUMED NAME INSIDE DOPE ETHAN ALLEN DIME NOVELS That's right.
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A third former official knowledgeable about the effort said the language alluding to leaks ultimately had been dropped and that the statement itself sought to burnish the esprit de corps at the department.
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The London-based VC firm recently sold its first two funds to Draper Esprit, and today is announcing the first close of a new £2500 million fund, double the size of its last.
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The move delivers a 4x return to the LPs that invested in those two funds, and also means Draper Esprit will pick up a minority (but a significant minority) stake in fintech unicorn TransferWise.
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Apparently, this has been "a dream collaboration" for some time now: "We've always said Esprit was the must-have brand when we were in high school and hanging out at the mall," Leon said.
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In a call, Ashness, who was previously a VC at Draper Esprit, said SimplyCook's different model is also reflected in the modest amount of funding the startup has raised to date compared to competitors.
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Meanwhile, Draper Esprit isn't breaking out specifically how much it has invested in Seedcamp and Episode 1, but says it is part of a wider strategy to create a significant fund of funds business.
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Shop Opening Ceremony collaboration pieces like an Esprit by Opening Ceremony reversible trench coat ($150, originally $375) and an Opening Ceremony x Fossil cuff watch ($102, originally $2150) for up to 2250 percent off.
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The house, known as Esprit Villa, was built in 1995 on a half-acre plot about 1,000 feet above sea level, with terraces on three levels offering views of Coral Bay to the east.
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James Bond famously drove a Lotus Esprit in 1977's "The Spy Who Loved Me", and Lotus once boasted a Formula One team until it was sold to Renault for just one pound in 2015.
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In the sharply drawn relationship between Wendy and Maria, for example, there's a tacit sense of esprit de corps among women who are trying to operate in a hypermasculine environment that constantly tests their mettle.
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Simultaneously, they pursued collaborations with throwback giants like Pendleton, Levi's, Dr. Martens, Vans, Bass, Timberland, Coach, Esprit, and X-girl—"every little mall-rat brand that we grew up with," as Cynthia Leung put it.
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In the sixties, Tompkins and his then wife, Susie, started the North Face, an outdoor-gear retailer, as well as the clothing company Esprit, which Chouinard looked to as a model for his fledgling business.
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The U.K. government-backed British Business Bank is the anchor LP, and is joined by the likes of MassMutual Ventures, Investec, Thomas Cook Money, Index Ventures, Atomico, Idinvest Partners, ADV, Draper Esprit, SpeedInvest, and Underscore Ventures.
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Founded by Scott Sage and Krishna Visvanathan, who were both previously at DFJ Esprit, "Crane I" has had a second closing totalling $83 million, money the firm is investing in enterprise companies that are data-driven.
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Warren also reconnected with heavyweight donors who tuned in to her 2012 race — headlining events hosted by Esprit founder Susie Tompkins Buell in San Francisco and former UBS executive Robert Wolf in Martha's Vineyard, for example.
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Mostly notably they include publicly-listed U.K. venture capital firm Draper Esprit, who I'm told was one of the first batch of investors to commit to the new fund as part of its fund-of-funds initiative.
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One flip through the lookbook ahead, odds are you'll get flashbacks to the iconic Esprit campaigns from the brand's heyday — which will likely only tempt you to shell out for one of those logo sweatshirts even more.
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It was this kind of orthodoxy—antithetical to the loud, progressive esprit of the Castro—which bugged Sister Vish, whose love affair with San Francisco and its unbridled progressivism began on a visit in the late 1970s.
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But perhaps his most impressive car is the 1976 Lotus Esprit submarine car, which was used in the 1977 James Bond movie film, "The Spy Who Loved Me," which he bought at auction in London for $997,000.
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Speakers at the one-day event will include Simon Cook, CEO and co-founder of Draper Esprit; Lisa Edgar, managing director U.S. fund of funds Top Tier Capital Partners; and Katie Martin, chairwoman of Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati.
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Prior to launching his own fund, Nic was Partner at Draper Esprit and led over 40 investments in both London and Silicon Valley during a 15 year long career, which saw him enjoy a number of successful exits.
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AFSA and others argue that starting new hires at the bottom builds esprit de corps, creates parity between various staff at the embassy, and ensures that senior leaders have a complete understanding of embassy operations at all levels.
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In an extremely rare move for a venture capital (VC) firm, Draper Esprit went public on the London Stock Exchange Wednesday, raising some £103 million ($146.1 million) - and giving retail investors access to investing in high-tech start-ups.
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Esprit was a brand that, both aesthetically and internally, was ahead of its time, with its bold use of color and prints, its inclusive approach to campaign imagery, and its acknowledgement of issues like sustainability and longevity in fashion.
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But for those who board the Crystal Esprit — a 20153-passenger expedition yacht that travels to the Adriatic and the West Indies — there's an extra special amenity: a once-in-a-lifetime ride on a high-tech personal submarine.
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Draper Esprit, the publicly-listed VC firm based in London, has announced its intention to invest in other early-stage VC firms in Europe, putting aside up to £75 million ($100m) to do so over the next five years.
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The park is the brainchild of Kristine McDivitt Tompkins and her husband, Douglas Tompkins, who founded the North Face and Esprit clothing companies, and starting in 4003, put $2400 million — much of his fortune — buying large swaths of Patagonia.
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Firms including Esprit, Next and H&M said in a survey conducted earlier this year by NGO the Business and Human Rights Centre they had found Syrian children making clothes for them in recent years and acted to fix the situation.
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HONG KONG, Feb 26 (Reuters) - Fashion group Esprit Holdings Ltd on Tuesday posted a bigger loss for the first half amid changes in consumer behaviour, price competition and reduced customer traffic across its distribution channels due to weakness of its brand.
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Esprit said in November that it would cut about 40 percent of its non-store jobs and reduce the number of products it sells in stores as it restructures in the wake of tough competition from online and fast-fashion retailers.
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"Looking ahead, the group expects the next two financial years to be a period of transition," Esprit said in a filing to the Hong Kong bourse, adding underlying operating profit was expected to achieve breakeven in two to three years' time.
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"If you look at decades of what [Esprit has] done with their collections, they really go after an idea," Carol Lim, co-founder of Opening Ceremony, told Refinery29 at the launch of the brand's pop-up installation in New York.
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"The unit must have displayed such gallantry, determination, and esprit de corps in accomplishing its mission, under extremely difficult and hazardous conditions, to have set it apart from and above other units participating in the same campaign," the awards manual reads.
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He took a few courses at San Francisco State and at the College of Marin, spent six months backpacking through India, moved to Santa Fe, then London, then to San Francisco again, where he landed a job with Esprit in 1982.
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It&aposs an unholy mashup of DMC DeLorean, Lotus Esprit S1, Triumph TR7 ("the shape of things to come"), first-generation Honda Ridgeline, Chevy Avalanche/Cadillac EXT, Ark II (look it up), F-117 Stealth Fighter, and, regrettably, Pontiac Aztek.
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Brian Caulfield, a venture partner at Draper Esprit, wrote in a Medium blog on the issue that venture capitalists don't always have immediate access to their fund while making investments and instead rely on limited partners to supply cash as needed.
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" On Why The Esprit Conference MattersJD: "[The conference] attracts about 150 transgender women that are all in their 50s, 60s, and 70s, most of them are not women full time, and so there are people who have incredibly strong and developed male identities.
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OG Esprit fans will recognize some of their old favorites, but there's plenty to dig if you don't have much history with the label: The collab illustrates how Opening Ceremony can create something totally new out of an old, familiar idea, Leon explained.
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Founding chief executive Nic Lawrence (the previous head of Light Blue Optics) even managed to bring in investors from his old startup to Kaptivo, raising $6 million in fresh capital from Draper Esprit (a previous backer), Benhamou Global Ventures and Generation Ventures.
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HONG KONG, Feb 22 (Reuters) - Esprit Holdings Ltd said on Wednesday it returned to a profit for its fiscal first-half, as the clothing company reduced its retail space and trimmed operating costs in response to weak consumer demand and tough online competition.
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"It was amazing as a little kid in South Africa to watch James Bond in The Spy Who Loved Me drive his Lotus Esprit off a pier, press a button and have it transform into a submarine underwater," Musk said at the time.
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There's long been a yacht-style of cruising (Seabourn was a pioneer, and Windstar is top-of-the-line now) but Crystal's Esprit and Scenic's upcoming Eclipse are both courting the type of traveler who might otherwise charter his/her own vessel.
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"From each room in Esprit, the breezy view from Bordeaux Mountain to the islands in Sir Francis Drake Channel is what makes this villa so special," said Jan Courlas, a senior broker associate with USVI Sotheby's International Realty, which has the listing.
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So for now, at least, the Wilma's effort remains financially modest: The HotHouse actors get paid when they are cast in a show, and they receive a stipend for attending the communal training Ms. Zizka has instituted to build esprit de corps.
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"Edwards peels off the covers and exposes the myth of fair-play and esprit de corps in sports as a giant trap for Black athletes who have been charmed from without and strangled from within," writes journalist Samuel J. Skinner in the book's forward.
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SANTIAGO (Reuters) - The foundation created by the late creator of U.S. clothing brands Esprit and The North Face turned over 407,000 hectares (1 million acres) of forest, mountain, lakes and glaciers in Patagonia to the government of Chile on Friday, the Tompkins Conservation Foundation said.
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Following on from its announcement that it would invest in other early-stage VC firms in Europe, and doing so by investing in the UK's Seedcamp, and Episode 25 Partners, Draper Esprit, the publicly-listed VC firm based in London, has gone a stage further.
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Esprit, which in July flagged a break-even in net income for the year ended in June, has been in the midst of an ambitious revamp over the past year that has included store closures, price adjustments, new return policies, and technology and distribution improvements.
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His 2012 annual letter ends with the sentence, "With lofty aspirations and esprit de corps, we are striding across the Pacific Ocean," referring to the lyrics of a famous song about the Chinese Army crossing the Yalu River to fight the Americans and South Koreans.
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They are also the military's most insular warriors — with the possible exception of Navy SEALs — whose tight bond, or ''esprit de corps,'' grows out of the codes, traditions and reverence for suffering that Marines believe set them apart from civilians and all other military branches.
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That included James Baker (Geoff Pierson) emerging as a cool head in the shooting's wake, Secretary of State Alexander Haig (Patrick St. Esprit) famously proclaiming he was in charge, and a frantic Nancy insisting on being at her husband's side as doctors labored to save him.
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By IPO-ing, Draper Esprit joins a number of successful "patient capital", non-LP VC firms already developing this new model in Europe, providing long term permanent capital to technology companies; firms such as Imperial Innovations plc, IP Group plc, BGF Ventures, Eight Roads and Octopus Ventures.
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Draper Esprit recently had a big win in the area of marketing tech with another UK startup in its portfolio, when Oracle acquired Grapeshot for what one reliable source said was up to $400 million including earn-outs; Grapeshot had only raised $22 million in total.
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My reason to attend is to participate in the excitement of the birth of a new cultural touchstone for African Americans.... As a fashion enthusiast, I am also excited at seeing how those of us who will dress up will interpret the esprit of everyday Wakandans.
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"It was amazing as a little kid in South Africa to watch James Bond in 'The Spy Who Loved Me' drive his Lotus Esprit off a pier, press a button and have it transform into a submarine underwater," Musk said in a statement to Huffington Post.
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D'une taille gigantesque, possédant une peau lisse, bioluminescente, des ailes recouverte d'une membrane, une longue queue dont l'extrémité forme un diamant, le ropen est entré dans le folklore néo-guinéen et est désormais associé à un esprit local au long bec et à la tête anguleuse.
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"It was amazing as a little kid in South Africa to watch James Bond in 'The Spy Who Loved Me' drive his Lotus Esprit off a pier, press a button and have it transform into a submarine underwater," Musk said in a statement to Huffington Post at the time.
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"It was amazing as a little kid in South Africa to watch James Bond in 'The Spy Who Loved Me' drive his Lotus Esprit off a pier, press a button and have it transform into a submarine underwater," Musk said in a statement to Jalopnik at the time.
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Von der Leyen told ZDF television on Sunday night that the arrested officer had written a paper for his Master's at a military academy that was filled with "primitive racial ideas" that drew initial scrutiny from superiors but were then "whitewashed" in an "ill-advised esprit de corps".
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HONG KONG, Jan 25 (Reuters) - Esprit Holdings Ltd said it expected to post losses in the fiscal first half, ended in December 2017, hit by weak sales at its brick-and-mortar retail stores as the fashion group rationalized its distribution footprint and a decline in China business.
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Our third motivation was to add depth to our culture – to help Draper Esprit become a more permanent business, moving away from the risks of only being as good as our last fund, creating a vision for a firm that will be here in 20 years' time or longer.
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Draper Esprit CEO and co-founder Simon Cook said he wanted to build a large pan-European investment group that gave both financial and retail investors access to growth opportunities in the tech sector, where other VCs were running 10-year plus private funds with large minimum ticket sizes.
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"It just creates havoc inside an already high-pressured organization that needs to have some sort of esprit de corps in order to function properly," said Russell Riley, who directs the Presidential Oral History Program at the Miller Center, which has collected interviews with former officials since the Carter Administration.
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HONG KONG, July 18 (Reuters) - Esprit Holdings Ltd said on Monday that it expected a break-even in net income for the year ended in June thanks to HK$1.34 billion ($173 million) in exceptional gains from the sale of its Hong Kong office and a write-back in tax provisions.
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As the FT notes, the move by Draper Esprit can be seen as a sign that U.K. investors are attempting to fill the gap left by the European Investment Fund (EIF), which has "paused" funding of U.K.-focussed VCs following notification that the U.K. intends to leave the European Union.
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" In September, Mr. Ricketts, a conservative who supported President Trump in last year's election, raised the ante with a post on his blog titled "Why I'm Against Unions At Businesses I Create," in which he argued that "unions promote a corrosive us-against-them dynamic that destroys the esprit de corps businesses need to succeed.
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In his entry from July 31, 1665, Pepys mentions a story that his friend, Mr. Brisband, told him about a group of girls reciting the following chant over a boy who was laying down: Voici un corps mort Raide comme un bâton, Froid comme le marbre Léger comme un esprit, Lève-toi au nom de Jésus-Christ!
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Restaurateurs persevered through abysmally slow seasons as tourists elected to visit elsewhere, but French esprit persisted, and with the shifting tides of European politics — Brexit, a new, youthful French president who, if nothing else, has shaken up the status quo — Paris remains a brave creative and cultural hub, a city that celebrates introspection and beauty unlike any other.
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But while his visions could be as expansive as a submarine-swallowing supertanker in "The Spy Who Loved Me", he also dreamt up small-scale props, from laser guns to jet packs, from an underwater Lotus Esprit to an Aston Martin with an ejector seat, the last of which was inspired by his time as a pilot.
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Here's the transition from regular phrase to theme entry: 2104A: RADAR RANGE → RADAR ANGER 221A: EDAM CHEESE → DAME CHEESE 2140A: SENATE AIDE → SENATE IDEA 221A: RHEA PERLMAN → HEAR PERLMAN 221A: ESPRIT DE CORPS → SPRITE DE CORPS 22016A: ASSUMED NAME → ASSUMED AMEN 323A: INSIDE DOPE → INSIDE OP-ED 232A: ETHAN ALLEN → THANE ALLEN 255A: DIME NOVELS → IMED NOVELS Got that?
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The Left Bank boutique property Hôtel Esprit Saint-Germain will have a concierge who can create customized itineraries of romantic walks, gardens and other spots; couples can also book the four-night Valentine's Day package, which includes a room upgrade and unlimited alcohol in the lobby lounge bar; from 1,350 euros for four nights, or $143,415 at $1.06 to the euro.
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Once their partnership was sundered, Ivana took her blithe esprit and comic malaprops to enjoy the high life elsewhere ("In 2006, my yacht was parked at Cannes for the film festival, and I was having a party with two hundred people on it"), a pity since she might have been a more inspiriting first lady than the inscrutable, animatronic Melania.
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When the couple opened the unit, they were in for what would likely be the surprise of their lives: Buried under some old blankets sat a 1976 Lotus Esprit sports car used in the filming of the 1977 James Bond film "The Spy Who Loved Me." In the movie, the sports car famously transforms into a submarine and fires missiles while underwater.
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The EIF (European Investment Fund) is the cornerstone investor of Indico, and has been joined by 20 other institutional and individual investors, such as the IFD (Instituição Financeira de Desenvolvimento) through the Portugal Tech facility, Draper Esprit (a major global quoted VC fund based in the U.K.), pension funds, education and research institutions, wealth managers, high-net-worth individuals and many local and international tech entrepreneurs.
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Si l'argument selon lequel " les fossiles ne sont pas la preuve de l'extinction des ptérosaures, mais des restes d'animaux qui ont vécu parmi les hommes " peut faire ricaner qui a eu le privilège de vivre dans un milieu favorable au développement d'un esprit sceptique, il est certain que la forme pseudo-académique empruntée par les auteurs en question contribue à convaincre des individus moins aguerris.
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In doing so he had survived countless explosions, done battle on speeding trains, fought off monstrous villains with robot arms or steel teeth, ducked a helicopter attack by turning his Lotus Esprit into a submarine, hang-glided from a speedboat just before it met the Iguazu Falls and skied off a thousand-foot cliff, snapping open a Union-flag parachute as he drifted, only slightly unconcerned, to earth.
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Video Parked between the two in spaces 2-8 are Chitty Chitty Bang Bang, Doc Brown's DeLorean time machine, Herbie the Love Bug (the original, not Lindsay's), Christian Bale-era Batman's Tumbler, James Bond's Lotus Esprit submarine from "The Spy Who Loved Me," Greased Lightning and the Minis from the original "The Italian Job," the film that respondents also said has the best chase scene ahead of the ones in "Bullitt" and "The French Connection."
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I mean, that NBC Olympics team, that is a massive machine, and I have to say it was great to have ... The one thing I do miss about not being at a broadcast network is that esprit de corps, you know, that sense that everybody's kinda working together for ... I was going to say for the common good, which I don't know if you can actually say that in television, which is pretty damn cut-throat.
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Thanks to Brian Stucki of MacMiniColo who shared the cowbell-infused clip (make sure to turn the sound on): We've no idea what other cowbell Musk could have in mind, but the Model S has a hidden James Bond mode that turns the car (at least as far as the on-screen display is concerned) into the Lotus Esprit submersible from The Spy Who Loved Me — a car that Elon Musk personally purchased back in 2013.
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