Word: lite
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...Central bankers in the 1930s and '40s were not important people. Government basically told them what to do. This whole mystique of, Just give it to this élite group of men to run the world economy - I don't think we're going to allow that to happen again for a while...
...modafinil (Provigil), along with other performance-raising medications, to improve productivity. College kids have been doing it for years. About 7% of U.S. university students report having taken stimulants "nonmedically" at least once, according to a 2005 study of nearly 11,000 students. On some campuses - primarily private, élite schools - a full quarter of students admit to nonmedical drug use in the past year, mainly in an attempt to improve grades...
...government has been formed - the fourth in 2008 - but its Prime Minister, Abhisit Vejjajiva, was forced to delay his inaugural policy address because of protests by supporters of the previous administration. Hovering in the background is the PAD, which draws its ranks from the very middle class and élite that supported the 1992 democracy movement, and has as its ultimate aim a so-called "New Politics," whose fuzzy, oft-shifting aims have included the undemocratic step of appointing parliamentarians. "We're looking at a dead end politically," says Thitinan Pongsudhirak, a political scientist at Chulalongkorn University in Bangkok...
...resurgence of so-called "Asian values," a mix of paternalistic discipline and market economics that fell into disregard after the 1997 financial meltdown proved that crony capitalism thrived in the absence of democratic checks and balances. In Thailand, as in many parts of Asia, members of the educated élite bristle at the notion that Western-style democracy is a one-size-fits-all political system. "You can't expect us to have a European- or American-style democracy here," says PAD member Visitchai Kemajitpan. "We should have our own Oriental democracy...
...point of the Temple isn't to produce élite performers. Typical of its users is Subbaraman Saravanan, whose eyes flash like some strutting prince as he practices a dance to Lord Shiva. After more than 10 years of classes, he is working furiously toward graduation - even though his day job is that of aircraft mechanic for Malaysia Airlines. "When I dance I am seeing God," he says. "I can carry this knowledge with me to the airport or anywhere...