Word: insularity
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...signatures would deter potential candidates (what’s another couple hours hanging outside a dining hall?)—the end of deterring candidates is itself undesirable. Multiple tickets are important for the UC elections, injecting unconventional, innovative ideas into what otherwise can too easily deteriorate into stolid, insular debates. The competition allows issues and platforms to come to light that might otherwise be neglected in the dialogue of just a couple mainstream candidates. When the candidate pool is thick, minority viewpoints are given a voice and the most fundamental issues can be brought to light and discussed?...
...centerpiece of Gerberding's reorganization was her decision to replace the agency's 11 often insular centers with four coordinating bodies that would, in theory, respond to emergencies with more agility. Closer contact between infectious-disease and environmental experts, Gerberding says, has already resulted in faster tests for detecting botulism...
...future of research at Harvard is not insular and isolated, as it has been in the past,” Gaur said. “This is a great time to be an undergraduate here...
...DIED. Marc Hodler, 87, courtly Swiss lawyer who rocked the insular International Olympic Committee in 1998 by telling reporters that I.O.C. members had solicited bribes from cities vying to host the Games-prompting sweeping reforms in the organization; in Bern, Switzerland. The I.O.C. elder statesman said he was motivated by his concern for the "honor of the Olympics...
...knows what he's doing." Tata is one of Asia's most influential businessmen. And perhaps more than any other company, Tata group exemplifies India's metamorphosis into a modern economy. For much of their 138-year history, the Tata family companies were the heart of India's insular business establishment - the last business group you'd have turned to for radical thinking, or owning anything abroad. The group's founder, J.N. Tata, was a nationalist driven by the idea of a strong, self-reliant India. He gave the country its first steel plant, first hydroelectric plant, first textile mill...