Word: isolationism
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"The vigil helped ease my sense of isolation, seeing people of different backgrounds and faculty committed to changing things in this country," said Clair Fox, a staff assistant in the school's students affairs office.
Personal contacts, and larger ones, are slowly beginning to make a difference to the island continent's overall sense of isolation. Despite Australians' fabled reluctance to learn a foreign language, 65,000 are now studying Japanese, more students than in any other country outside Japan, save South Korea and China...
"I found myself without a job and in completeprofessional isolation," she said.
Yet only two days earlier, Kohl himself had gratuitously disturbed the skeletons of the past when he hosted a cordial lunch in Munich for Austrian President Kurt Waldheim. That made him the first Western leader to meet Waldheim outside Austria, breaking the diplomatic isolation imposed on the Austrian President for...
On the international front, however, De Klerk has had unqualified success. On his numerous state visits, de Klerk has ended South Africa's many years of diplomatic isolation. He has convinced western leaders of the irreversibility of the reform process in which the country is currently involved.