In the 1990s, China began pouring money into research at around 100 of its 1, 800-odd higher-education institutions, hoping to create an elite tier of universities.
It uses innovation training to create a new elite within its typically conservative social hierarchy.
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Even toffs were innocent, little dreaming how a vulgar commercial world would create a new elite to supplant them stocky, energetic men who earned their fortunes and bought their furniture.
In development since 2010, the micoach Elite System is the product of extensive research, science and cutting-edge technology development by adidas to create the most advanced system for elite teams across the globe.
And America's soft power is still so strong that it can create aspirational brands for that elite.
James Vaught, a retired lieutenant general who helped create the Army's elite Delta Force, disapproves of the SEALs' participation.
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Mr Sadjadpour says that the task of the Obama Administration is to create cleavages within the Iranian ruling elite.
"What comes through powerfully in the film is their sense that the best they can do is create some political space for others, the political elite, to step in to do what must be done, " remarked Daniel Levy of the European Council of Foreign Policy, who's had extensive experience in Israeli-Palestinian peace-making.
Nevertheless, what is clear today is that the EU policy elite has chosen banking union as the circuit breaker rather than an attempt to create ever larger firewalls around sovereign debt.
Is it better to create more charter schools, or vouchers for private schools, or special programs to push along the more elite students, and their more involved parents?
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