Word: in-grown
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...borrows the social theorists vocabulary to describe job conditions, she said that what she had learned about social stratification during her brief stay at college applied perfectly to conditions in the hospitals. Management uses race, class, and hierarchy to divide workers, Lisa explained. "Class and departmental separation encourages an in-grown community and suspicions between workers in different classes," she said. And Lisa does not think this is a natural divisiveness that the workers choose for comfort. She said that many of the Spanish workers want to work with English-speaking workers so that they can learn the language...
...immediate reaction to the Harvard community was dislike. In his classmates especially, with the ex- ception of the tortured, in-grown, dead and beautiful Starwick, he found the stoniness, the apathy, the lifeless wit which characterized the Harvard literati...
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