Sales in Europe of VW's star model, the Golf, have risen nearly 16% so far this year, making it Europe's bestselling car, ahead of the Ford Fiesta.
Most Americans have never heard of the 27-year-old singer, song writer, dancer, TV star and model, who eclipsed childhood in the projects of northern England with beauty, talent and determination to rise to UK superstardom.
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He next found work at the Model Star Laundry Service, doing pressing.
Star speckled with model Selita Ebanks as the phoenix, narration by Nicki Minaj, and writing credits for Hype Williams, the video is thought out and decorated with metaphors.
The list of 78 witnesses named by Mr Berlusconi includes Real Madrid footballer Cristiano Ronaldo, Hollywood star George Clooney and his girlfriend, and the Italian model and TV star Elisabetta Canalis.
That's why so many young people today tell pollsters their ambition in life is to be a celebrity, a sports star or a glamorous model.
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The children can choose between two career tracks to act out on their visit: model or pop star.
At the final "Occupy Barbie" meeting Tuesday, Franziska Sedlak, 25, wondered why the Dreamhouse only lets girls act out careers like model and pop star, instead of jobs like engineer and mathematician.
Goblinworks and Paizo are adopting a subscriber model for Pathfinder Online, in a time when that revenue model is quickly losing ground and even behemoths like Star Wars: The Old Republic have been forced to adopt a F2P model.
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The change in the investigating officer is a sharp twist to the state's case against Mr. Pistorius over the alleged premeditated murder of his 29-year-old girlfriend, Reeva Steenkamp, a model and reality TV star shot and killed in a bathroom at Mr. Pistorius's home on Feb. 14.
He referred to Anna Nicole Smith, the former model and reality TV show star who died of an overdose in 2007.
Celli, the lawyer who helped the six-year-old model cash in on her star turn in the anti-abortion billboard, thinks Packard has a strong case.
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To hear Todd Rome and Richard (Ricky) Sitomer tell it, the two cofounders of Blue Star Jets have created a new business model for private aviation: "We're the superbroker of the industry, " says Sitomer, 37.
It's here that a model can be scouted by the star makers of the industry--editors, photographers, cosmetic company executives.
It added that since 1998 it's given Brazilian consumers the option of buying a car with air bags its Gol Trend model with two frontal air bags scored three stars, while the same model without air bags scored one star.
That car scored one star on the Latin NCAP test, but the model sold in Europe, made by Renault's Romanian subsidiary Dacia, scored three stars.
Separately and together, he and his sometime lover and regular companion, Giancarlo Giammetti, made sure to greet and double-cheek kiss friends and supporters sitting at all the tables in their area, ranging from the young (the former reality-television star Olivia Palermo, the Brant brothers, the model Jessica Hart and her shipping-heir boyfriend, Stavros Niarchos) to the established (the interior designer Mica Ertegun, Barbara Walters, the Texan philanthropist Lynn Wyatt, the Greek businesswoman Gianna Angelopoulos-Daskalaki).
The Chelsea star is alleged to have had an affair with French model Vanessa Perroncel, ex-partner of Wayne Bridge.
Free-to-Play may conjure images of a thousand identical games with friend requirements and energy bars in the corners, but more elaborate games like League of Legends and Star Wars: The Old Republic are playing with the model as well.
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But in constructing the first atmospheric model that has the orbital dynamics of a star-planet-moon system fully included, astronomers Duncan Forgan, at the Royal Observatory in Edinburgh, and David Kipping, at the Harvard Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics in Cambridge, turn that idea on its head.
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Busch says now she hears praise for the CAOs from new Gold Star families, and the Army is using the training course as a model for programs at other bases.
Also competing will be weather presenter Sian Lloyd, model Catalina Guirado, chef Antony Worrall Thompson, ex-soccer star John Fashanu and Changing Rooms designer Linda Barker.
For the Virgin Mary, he had to look farther afield to find a suitable model, choosing a woman already widely worshipped: the Austrian movie star Hansi Knoteck.
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What a weekend for girl power on the big screen Salt, starring none other than ForbesWoman role model Angelina Jolie was originally built as a vehicle for Mission Impossible star Tom Cruise.
Robinson said he is trying to model himself after former Kentucky quarterback Randall Cobb, who has become a star with the Green Bay Packers as a receiver and returner, and former Indiana quarterback Antwaan Randle El, who was a standout all-purpose player last decade with the Pittsburgh Steelers.
It may be tempting to class the model-turned-presenter as yet another all-style-no-substance star.
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