Word: insularity
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Yale now understands that it cannot hide from such statistics. For years, the university had been insular in its self defense, convinced that Yale could be an ivory tower removed from the life of the city...
...even as these problems persist, Renee Tajima '80, the Japanese-American director of a documentary about the Chin murder, warns that Asian-Americans have become increasingly insular, ignoring the communities most likely to encounter such prejudice...
...Karan seems right at home in the rough, insular world of Seventh Avenue, it may be because she was born into it. Her father Gabby Faske, who died when Donna was three, was a tailor. Her mother Helen worked as a sales representative and showroom model. Known in the family as "the Queen," Karan's mother was an imperiously demanding woman. Does Karan's childhood explain her drive? After 18 years of psychoanalysis, Karan has either found the answer or stopped asking the question. "I think I was born this way," she says. "I never feel I've done...
...whose charismatic leader Alfred Sloan pioneered modern corporate management, get into this fix? In large part, the company has been a victim of its past success and an insular culture that has refused to change. For 70 years, GM has operated along lines that Sloan first laid down in a 1919 memo to top managers of what was then a struggling company. Sloan separated the firm into operating groups and divisions, which were presided over by executive committees that set corporate policy. This blend of top-down control and decentralized execution helped GM build cars at lower cost than...
...which began as a fierce and proudly insular music of the American black underclass, is now possibly the most successful American export this side of the microchip, permeating, virtually dominating, worldwide youth culture. It is both a recreational vehicle and a form of social commentary: you can dance to it (one Mexican rap hit has a salsa kick) and think it over too (a German piece rails against neo-Nazi goons and a complacent, fat-cat government). The language may differ from place to place, even when it's English, but the music is everywhere...