Word: clannish
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...think 22 is too young to get married, if you have found the right girl," said Rick, and Kristin, daughter of former football great Tommy Harmon, looked right as rain. Whether she will join Rick in The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet remained to be seen, but with those clannish Nelsons gaining such a pretty new face, it seemed a safe...
...small, grey Quebec villages, political meetings have a clannish, almost family atmosphere. Réal Caouette, 45, strides down the center aisle, chatting, shaking hands. A small, bespectacled man, he speaks rapidly in French Canadian patois, his jokes homey and telling. At meeting's end, as party workers pass cardboard ice cream containers for campaign contributions, he says to his audience of stubble-chinned farmers and somber-faced workmen: "Give if you can, but don't be shy if you can't. And if you really need some money, take...
...occupy some of Nairobi's finest homes; but the Asians are for the most part small shopkeepers-duka wallahs to the Africans-and junior civil servants, who have never found middle-class security in their middle-class vocations. African nationalists have long complained that the Asians are a clannish, alien people whose only interest in Africa lies in the profits to be wrung from African customers. "The Indians are opportunists and quislings," cries Nyasaland's Prime Minister Hastings Banda. "Everywhere in the country they are taking business from African businessmen." The Asians make a habit of shipping much...
Readymade Profit. The roster of top European executives today reflects profound changes in Europe's business community. Before World War II, most big European companies were owned and run by clannish, long-established families that kept their business affairs strictly secret, regarded advertising as an unnecessary extravagance and shunned public attention. The goal was high profit on low volume, and membership in a tidy cartel generally eliminated the danger of painful competition over prices and markets. A rigid class system kept workers from rising into executive ranks; the notion of increasing national buying power by raising wages was regarded...
Bavarians are a clannish lot, devoted to their native soil. One Bavarian member of the federal Bundestag, Socialist Waldemar von Knoringen, became so despondent in Bonn - 265 miles from home - that he would dial long-distance just to hear the operator's tape-recorded voice say "Munich, Munich, Munich...