The wild-card party of Beppe Grillo, the grass-roots Five-Star Movement, will also not enter into an alliance.

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The election deadlock has meant that Beppe Grillo, a former comedian and political revolutionary who led his grass-roots Five-Star Movement to third-place in the elections by promising to get rid of Italy's tired politicians and traditional political parties, would be the key to power if he were to support one of the traditional parties.

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Similarly, most of the big clinical failures of the past five years had their roots in the discovery strategies of the 1990s.

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Increasingly, the five judges of Delaware's Court of Chancery, which traces its roots back to medieval England, have been putting their faith in the sophistication of institutional investors, the importance of independent directors and the shareholder vote.

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This year, says Ward Carroll, an editor at Military.com, the list is intended for younger veterans who may have been in the service for just five years and are at a turning point in their lives when they are ready to put down roots, get more education and start a new career.

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The Summit Series, the five-year old entrepreneur conference run by a gang of mostly twenty-something nomads, is setting down roots.

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