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  • Insularity is likely to be a major impediment to recognizing new trends and managing risk.

    The Leaders Wall Street Needs Now Pino Audia 2010

  • Good Leaders Reject Insularity Just being wired into someone like Paulson is not always enough.

    The Leaders Wall Street Needs Now Pino Audia 2010

  • Insularity: despite the exhortations to "mission," all of the addresses I read include broad descriptions of the history of women religious as a way of "situating" the experience of these women within their own "mission," in other words, they spend a lot of page space on talking to one another about one another's grand innovations after the VC2 and how these innovations are radically different from anything that's come before.

    Archive 2009-04-12 2009

  • Insularity: despite the exhortations to "mission," all of the addresses I read include broad descriptions of the history of women religious as a way of "situating" the experience of these women within their own "mission," in other words, they spend a lot of page space on talking to one another about one another's grand innovations after the VC2 and how these innovations are radically different from anything that's come before.

    LCWR: prophets of futility & New Age gnosticism 2009

  • Insularity, or the loss of it, is at the heart of the Scandinavian crime novel .....

    Don't Look Back: An Inspector Sejer Mystery: Summary and book reviews of Don't Look Back: An Inspector Sejer Mystery by Karin Fossum. 2004

  • Insularity cuts both ways — a fact that the critics and curators of the little island of Manhattan have always been slow to grasp.

    Ansel Adams at 100 2002

  • Insularity is clearly a hallmark of this administration, but red herrings are totally their style.

    Power of the People 2004

  • Insularity is clearly a hallmark of this administration, but red herrings are totally their style.

    Power of the People 2004

  • Insularity is moreover a universal feature of biogeography.

    The Song of The Dodo David Quammen 2004

  • Insularity is moreover a universal feature of biogeography.

    The Song of The Dodo David Quammen 2004

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