Word: insularity
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...clash over microchips also went far beyond commercial concerns in pitting two vastly different cultures against each other. After more than 130 years of contact with the West, Japan is hard-working, thrifty, highly organized but still relatively insular in its world view. On the other hand, free-wheeling, free-spending and individualistic America is now becoming fully aware of the loss of its postwar industrial primacy. By its latest trade actions, Washington was clearly attempting to force Tokyo to change not only its outlook but also its historic attitudes. For the Reagan Administration, and indeed for America, the issue...
Hernandez-Colon, however, said he was concerned that the "United States believes in an insular tradition of monolinguism, and that rather than bridge the linguistic gap...it would widen that divide by declaring English the official language...
...announcement surprised even his staff. At a news conference the following day, Cuomo seemed to boast of his insular decision-making process: "I did it without telling anybody. The children didn't know." He was so concerned about secrecy that he had told his trusted secretary, who typed the announcement, that a different, noncommittal version was being typed up by someone else...
...which they live. Those seniors who petitioned at graduation time for the removal of shanties, which were erected in the Yard by activists as a reminder of the University's South African investments, acted selfishly. Their request was value neutral. Neither for or against divestment, it exhibited an insular attitude on the part of students who feared the protesters who were rocking the boat...
...Union speech last February to go to his painting class in Arlington, Va.). He once even tried his hand at writing a novel about the intrigues of a federal appeals court in the Southwest (it was rejected by several publishers). At times Rehnquist has appeared slightly bored with the insular routine of the high court. Two years ago, to "refresh" himself, he sat as a judge on a two-day jury trial in federal district court in Richmond, a highly unusual move for a sitting Justice...