Word: clannishness
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...hotels and restaurants they knew so well. The Brits even returned for their summer championships. Naturally, the die-hard surfers among you will need no encouraging to visit (or revisit) Arugam Bay, but beginners should take note: this will be one time you'll find the notoriously clannish world of surfing ready to welcome strangers with open arms...
...hotels and restaurants they knew so well. The Brits even returned for their summer championships. Naturally, the die-hard surfers among you will need no encouraging to visit (or revisit) Arugam Bay, but beginners should take note: this will be one time you'll find the notoriously clannish world of surfing ready to welcome strangers with open arms...
...Everyone knows that Stringer is a highly intelligent individual with superb management skills. But observers in the West are wondering how a foreigner who speaks no Japanese can hope to triumph at a company as clannish and complex as Sony. In fact, Idei himself represented a discontinuity with Sony's past. Unlike his predecessor, Norio Ohga, who was the surrogate son of co-founder Akio Morita, Idei was never viewed as an heir. Insiders referred to him as the company's first "salary-man CEO," implying that he was merely a hire and not a family member. Idei fancied himself...
...Ukraine's territorial integrity in doubt. It's not how people there really feel; it's how the government manipulates them. WHAT WOULD BE YOUR KEY OBJECTIVES AS PRESIDENT? The most important objective is making the right kind of country. The previous 14 years have resulted in a clannish model, in which three or four families run the entire country. Ninety-nine percent of the people know that their rights are not defended in any way, that a phone call from the presidential staff supersedes the law. We need a new independent judiciary. We need freedom of speech...
...Proofer Kim K. Aaron ’04 has thanked Gossip Guy for making her job this semester easier by avoiding offensive and backwards stereotypes of clannish Asians, drunken Irish, lazy blacks, penny-pinching Jews or promiscuous gays. Kim, you’re welcome...