Word: ingrown
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...wasn't race, however, that caused Baltimore's schools to congeal but rather the ingrown nature of bureaucracy. Race, in a city that remains deeply if informally segregated, merely intensified the us-against-them outlook of school administrators. Many outside observers say the school aristocracy came to view the black underclass as beyond help. David Rostetter, now a court-appointed overseer of schools in Chester, Pa., once studied Baltimore's school system at the request of the city's federal court. "What you have," he says, "is a black middle class being created on the backs of their own failure...
Beneath the energy and drama of his extremist life, though, discomfort began to gnaw at Leyden. For starters he was finding his social life to be cloyingly ingrown. "We usually stayed home to avoid contact with other races," Leyden explains. And as discontent seeped in, so did conflict. Leyden's brother is a policeman, and skinhead jokes about killing cops started to seem less than funny. His mother, who had polio as a child, has a slight limp, while Leyden's closest friends were busy calling disabled people "surplus whites...
...Yale or at State U, were narrow and parochial and left us ill- equipped to navigate a society that truly is multicultural and is becoming more so every day. The culture that we studied was, in fact, one culture and, from a world perspective, all too limited and ingrown. Diversity is challenging, but those of us who have seen the alternative know it is also richer, livelier and ultimately more...
Scott said that there was an "ingrown disillusionment" most people had of governments' ability to solve environmental problems. "We need to do something about this disillusionment," Scott said. "We need to do something about their faith in civics...
...relationship is actually poisoned on both sides. Patients may insist on the most conscientious care and yet balk at the battery of tests that doctors order to cover themselves. "You come in for an ingrown toenail, and they turn you inside out giving you all kinds of tests that you don't need," says columnist Ann Landers, who receives complaints from all concerned. "The bill is horrendous. The doctors want to be able to prove that they didn't miss anything. It makes people mad, and I don't blame them...