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...guys at the N.Y.S.E. are kind of cliquish b) The new decimal system hurts profits c) Someone moved their cheese...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: News Quiz Jun. 4, 2001 | 6/4/2001 | See Source »

...freshmen, some might have seen us as cliquish, but we were the only freshmen," Thoke said. "Of course we're going to stick together...

Author: By Rob Cacace, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Senior Trio Plays Together, Lives Together, Leads Together | 3/21/2001 | See Source »

...areas, to mandate school uniforms because some families simply cannot afford the required clothes," says TIME education writer Jodie Morse. With an eye on parity, some districts offer concessions to students who can't pay for the pleated skirts or pants - a sorry compromise that could feed the same cliquish tendencies uniforms are meant to dissipate...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: At Schools, It's Good-bye Hilfiger, Hello Blazer | 5/9/2000 | See Source »

...being white people. Everybody around me was descendents of American slaves. And then I come here and there just so few of us here. Most of the black people here are one or two generations removed from Africa-not descendents of slaves. It's just weird because it's cliquish...

Author: By Victoria C. Hallett and Frances G. Tilney, S | Title: Fifteen Minutes: In Yankee Country: Chitchat | 2/17/2000 | See Source »

...social warfare of Webster Groves is that there isn't much. There are clubs and tribes, unwritten dress codes and anxious social climbers who admit to their fear of being seen talking to the wrong person. And yet there is something almost diverse about the divisions: "It's very cliquish here," says junior Lauren Bell, "but each group is actually very mixed--it's not all the jocks, all the preps, all the punks, and I like that." Lauren sometimes considers herself an outsider, albeit a straight-A, cheerleading one. "You become a target, not really for looking different...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Monday: 10:36 A.M. First Lunch | 10/25/1999 | See Source »

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