Word: insularity
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...Insular intelligence agencies once resisted sharing their secrets not only with bureaucratic rivals but also with their customers in the White House, the State Department and the Pentagon. Now, says Intelink director Steve Schanzer, "agencies are competing with one another to get their products online" for fear of being ignored--and unappreciated--by the new viewing market...
...backwards and politically dominant Republican Party would be sure to leave the drinking age question off of its list of complaints of over-reaching federal intervention. Note the decision of Governor William F. Weld '66 not to campaign for his party's nomination. Republicanism today is dominated by an insular morality which would override any such notion as economic libertarianism, just as the rhetoric of Gingrich and Gramm dominates that of Weld and Wilson...
...insular, fundamentalist Christian sect that obligates its members to recruit vigorously and preaches that there is no salvation outside of the BCC. Supporters of the group claim the Harvard administration is discriminating against them for their religious beliefs...
...very quick study and a take-charge kind of guy" already sounds good to congressional leaders who forced out the intransigent R. James Woolsey in December. He may be in like Flint with the Senate, but "he's an outsider coming into what is one of the most insular and byzantine agencies in government," Waller says. Making the job even more of a challenge is the run of bad press Spy Central has faced in the last 12 months...
...very quick study and a take-charge kind of guy" already sounds good to congressional leaders who forced out the intransigent R. James Woolsey in December. He may be in like Flint with the Senate, but "he's an outsider coming into what is one of the most insular and byzantine agencies in government," Waller says. Making the job even more of a challenge is the run of bad press Spy Central has faced in the last 12 months...