Word: insularity
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...Since so many recruiters come to campus, I think we are somewhat insular [to fluctuations in the job market] than, say, students at a state school," he said...
...nearly two years in office? They portrayed the retired general as the continuation of a corrupt system, a charge he vehemently denied. Like other former Presidents and many of Algeria's high-ranking officers, Zeroual was born in the northeast of the country--reputed for its tough, insular people--and fought in the 1954-62 war of independence against France. He later received military training in Jordan, the Soviet Union and France, becoming Algeria's Deputy Chief of Staff in 1988. He resigned the following year in a dispute over a restructuring of the military...
...story of a young man's attempt to break from his father's inflamed obsession with anti-Semitism and its central event of this century, Hitler's Final Solution. Edgy with irony and urban humor, the book also gives a rare insider's view of an insular Jewish community that is as alien to mainstream American Jewry as it is to the rest of the country...
...brought out the best in their countrymen--people like Frederick Douglass, Sojourner Truth, W.E.B. Du Bois, Ida B. Wells, Thurgood Marshall and, of course, King, who broadened the American Dream by insisting that it applied in equal measure to everyone. Farrakhan and Chavis would substitute a cramped and insular nightmare for that all-encompassing and inspiring vision. Any march they lead is bound to be a journey to nowhere...
...Japanese-born, British-educated young writer--Ishiguro was in his late 20s when the novel appeared--to have created Stevens and his insular existence struck many readers as remarkable...