Word: insularity
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...does seem to me," Rickard says, "that America in some ways, because it's such a big country and such an important country, America is rather insular...
...daily interaction of students in classes, athletics and extracurricular activities tends to promote a very diverse atmosphere. However, students of the same ethnic group often cling together and form communities which may become insular. Minority students in particular often congregate in order to develop cultural bonds. The Interethnic Day of Service, organized by Harvard-Radcliffe Hillel and the Minority Student Alliance, provided a common goal to give otherwise disparate groups a unified objective: to lend a hand to the community. Approximately 45 students of various ethnic backgrounds headed to locations in Cambridge and Boston to serve the community by performing...
...with the outside world in terms of trade and investment. Although nothing would happen overnight, this may improve relations with the West, which has been very critical of the Iranian regime since the Islamic Revolution." But MacLeod adds that a victory by Nateq-Nouri could make Iran a more insular nation. The likelihood he will take the election is enhanced, he says, by the fact that conservative trends have been gaining ground in Iran over the past several years. The backing Nateq-Nouri has the recieved from powerful figures in the Iranian establishment also improve his chances of success...
...Korean delegations to lay out details of a plan proposed last April by President Clinton and President Kim Young Sam of South Korea to hold peace talks between the two Koreas, China and the United States. Despite North Korea's reluctance, the very fact that its increasingly isolated and insular government agreed to even limited discussions after 25 years of stubborn silence on the issue is considered a major breakthrough. The North downplayed its presence, however, suggesting it agreed to attend out of "deep regret" for a recent incursion of a North Korean submarine into South Korean waters. Nonetheless...
...revamp the internal management at clanking CSN, whose steelworks began operating in 1946 in Volta Redonda, a town 100 km northwest of Rio. Marques is introducing new management policies--such as dividing the company into separate profit centers by product--that are virtually unknown to Brazil's insular corporate world. "If I don't watch out," she allows, "someone will start importing what I produce within three or four years. CSN will have to be as cost efficient as the Japanese and the Koreans...