The elevation of the extremely wealthy to oligarchic status is happening differently today, but the outcome of that elevation could follow a similarly disastrous course.
Bowden, above 3, 000 feet, recorded 24 inches by early Tuesday, compared with 16 inches in Beckley, elevation 2, 300 feet, and 9 inches in the capital of Charleston, elevation 980 feet.
Some early moves hurt the firm, including investments in Forbes.com and Palm. (Elevation ultimately came out ahead on Palm, Mr. McNamee says.) More recently, Elevation scored with bets on Yelp (the business-reviews site went public in March) and Facebook.
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It leads down at first, but just past a small trout farm, the path begins to gain elevation.
His elevation to the cabinet will come as no surprise to people in Cardiff Bay.
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For extra-precise climb and descent data, they incorporate a barometric altimeter to pinpoint changes in elevation.
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It will be visible for three minutes and reach a maximum elevation of 13 degrees.
Known risk factors for breast cancer are relatively weak, contributing only a small elevation in risk.
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The six partners in Elevation have unique backgrounds in entertainment, media, technology and finance.
You see he had a slight elevation to his ST segments in these leads here, see?
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Secretary-designate Kerry is equally committed to ensuring the continued elevation of these issues at State.
Trudging through the snow, he pondered how to incorporate the elevation into a future playground.
Officials have focused on deer mice, common in the high-elevation eastern Sierra Nevada region.
The lower part is a mangrove forest and the rest has only modest elevation changes.
Mr Mulcair's elevation to the leadership shores up the NDP's novel base in Quebec.
"An elevation is a technical document, " he explains: an idealized view impossible to attain in real life.
Consider Hans Hess, founder of Elevation Burger, an organic restaurant franchise headquartered in Arlington, Virginia.
Compared to the others, the Holy Monastery of Rousanou is lower in elevation, making it more accessible.
Large investors include Bessemer Venture Partners, with 22.1%, Elevation Partners with 22.1% and Benchmark Capital with 15.7%.
The US space agency satellite uses a laser altimeter to measure the elevation of the ice sheets.
Their elevation of Jerry Lewis to the Legion of Honour demonstrates that they are capable of self-parody.
The mantle beneath rose some 200 million years ago, resulting in the elevation of the lake floor.
Convention organizers decorated the streets with state themes and brought snow from higher elevation for midsummer snowball battles.
It has an average elevation of 3, 000 m (9, 900 ft) and the ice is typically 4 km thick.
After all, what most leaders want is not social media notoriety, but a pretty traditional thing: brand elevation.
One of Palm's largest investors is Elevation Partners, a private equity outfit co-founded by Bono, U2's lead singer.
Margaret, or Lady T as we all called her after her elevation to the Upper House, loved America.
Mr Daschle's elevation has increased the likelihood that the Democrats will make gains in next year's congressional elections.
Both are loyal Blairites whose elevation has if anything tilted the balance of power somewhat to the right.
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