Word: insularity
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...Undergraduates tend to be insular, staying in our rooms and studying, not exploring and interacting with the city," he adds...
...effective crisis management, swift, decisive action, not to mention an appropriate level of contrition, is the name of the game today. Firestone has seemed slow and unresponsive, a legacy, perhaps, of its insular parent company in Japan, where consumers have few rights, and product-liability lawsuits hardly exist. Parent Bridgestone's CEO Yoichiro Kaizaki, who gained a tough-guy reputation in shaping the company's American strategy, has been all but invisible. He may be practicing what the Japanese call fugenjikko - no words, only action - but silence is deafening here. "I don't know how you cannot be available...
...result of this hands-off style, Rudenstine sometimes comes across as being too insular and distanced from undergraduates. Several years ago, for example, as the College buzzed about the first-ever, campus-wide elections of the Undergraduate Council's president and vice president, Rudenstine was oblivious to the sea of colorful campaign posters visible from his office window--he had no idea that the elections were happening...
Ecstasy came to Phoenix just as quietly. It came in small bags brought by friends to share at secretive, insular clubs around the city. It was nothing big, just something that like-minded friends would pass among themselves while dancing away weekends. "We didn't even know it was here," said a Phoenix narcotics cop. "It is not a 911 drug. Parents would drop their kids off at clubs thinking everything was O.K. because they didn't serve alcohol...
...nation's fourth most populous state--and proving he was no retroliberal on foreign policy. Instead, the Coelho-led gambit was almost universally dismissed as pandering gone terribly wrong. Behind the scenes in Goreland, it was derided as more evidence of how campaign decision making under Coelho has become insular and, more important, often wrongheaded...