And last Thursday's wave of seat gains suggests that, like the Lib Dems, the party is now building an effective activist organisation that knows how to deliver votes and win traditional British elections.
There was supposed to be a "pink wave" of leftist gains across the country, with voters expressing their disgust at the right's internal bickering and the financial scandals tainting Mr Chirac's past.
Who would object to that?Ms Mann concludes that, if IT software sees falls in prices, thanks to globalisation, similar to those that IT hardware has seen, then the second wave of productivity gains—notably in the service sector could be greater than the first, which was based mainly on manufacturing.
THERE is a new wave of fees gaining momentum in the airline industry — surcharges for certain seats — but the prices carriers are charging are all over the map.
PAGE A8 Beijing Journal Scavenging for Beijing's Treasures Beijing was one of the world's best-preserved metropolises until a merciless wave of redevelopment gained the upper hand.
Despite her criticisms, McMorris-Rodgers' remarks reflected the post-Obamacare reality that took root on Jan . 1 when the first wave of Americans gained new benefits and protections from the Affordable Care Act, and many received financial assistance for the first time to help pay for health insurance.
As Robert Shiller pointed out in his book "Irrational Exuberance," a rising market is like a natural Ponzi scheme, in which each successive wave of investors generates gains for the last wave, making everything look great until you run out of suckers.
Both SABMiller and InBev, themselves the products of mergers struck this decade, have embarked on a wave of consolidation to gain distribution channels around the world.
The irony was not lost on those who considered Germany to be the grandfather of investor-state arbitration: it was a group of German businessmen, in the late 1950s, who first conceived of a way to protect their overseas investments as a wave of developing countries gained independence from European colonial powers.
