Word: clannishness
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...Clannish athletes are not usually credited with strengthening the university community, but sometimes pigs fly. So effective have their coups d’ état of the Eliot and Lowell House dining halls been that both Houses have been forced to impose restrictions on non-residents during peak hours; a resident may invite one guest during traffic hours. Currently, Quincy is the only desirable River House that is restriction-less (at least for upperclassmen), and that domino too shall soon fall...
...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...