What is different now is the rise of serendipity in the hands of just about anyone rather than for elite groups.
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In Germany, for example, disenchantment with what had come to be seen as an excessively cosy system of bargaining between elite groups helped to spark an explosion of protest movements in the 1980s.
All elite groups (apart from the armed forces, for which no data were available) were less likely than they were in 1993 to say that America should be the most assertive of leading nations.
However, attracting American firms would require Ukraine drastically to improve its investment climate, something that no Ukranian leader has managed to achieve, perhaps because trading in Russian gas has been one of the main sources of enrichment for Ukraine's elite groups.
Red Carpet clubs and other elite travel groups are excellent sources for prospects.
As elite Muslim and Arab-American groups rush to join international demonstrations this coming weekend against US policy toward Iraq, a prominent leftist writer warns that the movement has bankrupted itself for standing on the side of tyrants like Saddam Hussein and Slobodan Milosevic.
The 30-year-old gym is already at capacity, with elite athletes training alongside mother and toddler groups.
It's an elite business, appealing to top demographic groups.
Just weeks before the Mali operation, on Dec. 26, Mr. Hollande dispatched elite soldiers to the Central African Republic as rebel groups moved closer to its capital.
If both groups were not part of the same elite, and if French companies were more independent from the state, they would be much less vulnerable to its whims.
This may signify that the political elite in Peru is coming to terms with the fact that Peruvian indigenous groups are much better organized now than they were in the past.
Like both men, he is not from the elite (he is the son of a pedlar), and can claim to represent social groups that have been excluded from power in his case, Ecuador's poor Andean Indian farmers.
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