The number of students from the Chinese mainland being educated at British boarding schools is booming as their parents seek to prepare them for entry into an elite UK college or university.
But now the salt and pepper elite are facing competition from young pretenders who are paying to turn grey.
As an elder of Israel's postwar Ashkenazi liberal elite, he often seemed out of step with a demographically changing Israel as it came to display a right-leaning political plurality and a citizenry sceptical about ever reaching a negotiated peace deal with the Palestinians.
Firms are also recruiting from a small pool of elite universities and hire those who "fit in" while ignoring talented but less advantaged candidates, according to Social Mobility Commission research.
Either of these figures would be far down on the profligacy shown by Europe's elite clubs at the turn of the millennium, when Real Madrid spent more than 50 per cent of their income in signing each of Luis Figo and Zinedine Zidane.
If you're not an elite flyer, or aren't enrolled in a credit card that offers this perk, the world of airport lounges can seem like a pricey indulgence.
The company is initially targeting the Flying Roadster at elite consumers.
Not only is there a wait for the handsets, those who do not have an elite Prime membership cannot reap the benefits of this compelling deal at all.
The central image is a nativewild flower,which makes a drastic difference from elite flower images typical of tradition english poems.
I have also personally signed models who were 5' 3" and 5' 4" to top agencies Elite Model Management and Ford Models.
When played at an elite level, soccer, like art, contains so much that is unquantifiable that it defies numerical ranking and subjective opinion.
As a test of market conditions, Britain's contest between elite hypocrisy and populist sincerity could not be bettered.
Rumours have also swirled in recent months that Chinese buyers are also targeting AC Milan, the city's other elite football team.
Depression is not an elite disorder — it is widespread and many aspects of the lives of the less privileged and lower paid can precipitate mental illness.
This year reports of nausea and nosebleeds among students at an elite school in Changzhou, an eastern industrial city, led to media revelations that the school's new campus had been built next to an abandoned pesticides factory.
Malia's much-speculated-upon decision, announced in a news release after months of official silence from the White House about her college search process, will make her the latest in a long line of presidential children to attend the elite university in Cambridge, Mass.
Among the latest casualties, hundreds of students at an elite school in eastern China fell ill because of toxins from a former pesticide site adjacent to its new campus.
Last week's most-publicised such solution was Huawei's sleek P9, with its twin cameras and arresting co-branding with Germany's elite Leica camera company.
Research shows that about a quarter of the world's wealthiest entrepreneurs dropped out of university or high school before going on to join the financial elite, a greater proportion than those who achieved masters degrees.
Growing up has brought a new attitude to business education among Silicon Valley's elite.
