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She found herself listening to a consultant one day who was trying to help teachers boost the test scores of the kids, so that the school would reach the elite category in percentage of kids passing big tests.
Because this corrupt elite in that region has lost even the power of deception.
In my opinion, these people are much more wiser than, not only the political elite, even the intellectual elite, even opposition leaders including political parties.
And the Chinese gave this small ruling elite loads of military weapons and sophisticated technology in order to ensure that people like me would not speak out against this relationship.
I've not seen corresponding figures for elite scholars in other fields, such as history or philosophy, but I'd be surprised if they were different.
Now, this is an elite audience, and I would therefore expect about 10 percent of you to be religious.
The Christian missionaries educated most of our political elite, like Senghor and Nkrumah, built many of our first hospitals and schools.
That's not possible in Latin America where land is held onto by a tiny elite descended from the conquistadors.
Therefore it's the exclusive preserve of an elite, talented body.
In fact, he belonged to the elite territorial support group.
This is a story about the fact that people want their resources managed properly for their good, and not taken out to places where they'll benefit just a few of the elite.
While affirmative action can increase the presence of minorities at elite educational institutions, she felt that it could also disadvantage hardworking people of different races from more affluent backgrounds.
Despite this racial stereotyping and the discomfort I often felt, the learning I gained from other aspects of being at an elite private school were incredibly valuable.
We also have evidence of an elite jeweler's workshop, showing that whatever was there was a very important city.
My personal belief is that, rather than having a small, elite force of highly trained government agents here to protect us all, we're much better off having average and ordinary citizens approaching this problem as a group and seeing what we can do.
Well, as we gather here in Edinburgh, technocrats appointed by the U.N. and certain governments, with the best intentions, are busying themselves designing a new package of goals, and currently they're doing that through pretty much the same old late-20th-century, top-down, elite, closed process.
They are the elite.
I'm talking about the elite.
We'd find a bunch of fairly similar-looking people ... (Laughter) We'd take them out of elite institutions, we'd put them into other elite institutions and we'd wait for the innovation.
And dictatorship meant that too many of the machines became concentrated in the hands of the government or of a small elite.
And dictatorship now means that too much data is being concentrated in the hands of the government or of a small elite.
I spent the last few years trying to answer that question, traveling around, meeting families, talking to scholars, experts ranging from elite peace negotiators to Warren Buffett's bankers to the Green Berets.
Then they could get promoted through four increasingly elite ranks: fuke [deputy section manager], ke [section manager], fuchu [deputy division manager], and chu [division manger].
Hard for us to imagine, but in 1995, this was the ultimate elite mobile device.
Luanda, it was full of land mine victims who were struggling to survive on the streets and war orphans living in sewers under the streets, and a tiny, very wealthy elite who gossiped about shopping trips to Brazil and Portugal.
Well, because an elite and its facilitators have been making millions of dollars from supporting logging on an industrial scale for many years.
So we sent an undercover investigator in to secretly film meetings with members of the ruling elite, and the resulting footage, well, it made some people very angry, and you can see that on YouTube, but it proved what we had long suspected, because it showed how the state's chief minister, despite his later denials, used his control over land and forest licenses to enrich himself and his family.
We include everyone: the young, the elderly, the disabled, the mentally challenged, the blind, the elite, the amateur runners, even moms with their babies.
So they recruited Los Zetas: an entire unit of elite paratroopers from the Mexican Army.
Der Spiegel, from Germany, leaked more information about the operations run by the elite hacker units operating inside these intelligence agencies.
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