Mr Oborne says this is producing an inbred class that lacks proper connections to the outside world.
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This suggests that, as countries become richer, and population growth slows down, they will inevitably become more inbred.
Lafley, 55, is something of an outsider--or as close to one as you can get in this inbred organization.
Investors can perhaps be forgiven for failing to spot this inbred governance structure.
It got its start in 1929 when Clarence Cook Little, a Harvard-trained geneticist, developed inbred strains of mice in order to study cancer.
Not being the product of crosses between the inbred strains, the second-generation crop would not necessarily have the desired characteristics.
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The literary world is small and somewhat inbred with sharp teeth and the capacity to lash out when it feels threatened.
"They'll come back fighting in Nottingham, that's inbred in them, " Hawkins said.
Millennium Pharmaceuticals and Myriad Genetics, for instance, extract DNA samples from inbred societies in Finland and Costa Rica and from Utah's Mormons.
It is as if there is an underlying inbred, irrational hatred of one's fellow man, based solely on differences in culture or religion.
Sweden's environmental protection agency said the aim was to eliminate inbred wolves and improve the gene pool of the wild population, but conservationists dispute this.
There are probably few people in the Swiss watch industry who understand this perspective more than Margolis, who is an outsider in a largely inbred industry.
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The locals there have been branded crack pots , para militaries, terrorists, foreign agitators, protest tourists , scum, backwards, inbred and any other number of offensive terms.
At the moment, the use of hybrid seeds produced from inbred strains means that it is pointless for a farmer to replant any seeds from his harvest.
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In a separate interview, Ms Kisko told the BBC the Kennel Club currently allowed inbred dogs to be registered with them - a requirement for entry into Crufts.
In particular, the most inbred individuals will cost the most to treat and rehabilitate and such individuals could also act as reservoirs of infectious agents when they are subsequently released.
Tony Collins, executive editor of Computer Weekly, a trade magazine which has specialised in charting government computer-procurement failures, says that Whitehall's inbred culture has proved resistant to learning the lessons of past mistakes.
In traditional plant breeding, some inbred maize plants destined to be crossed with others have their male, pollen-producing tassels cut off to prevent self-fertilisation (maize is a horticultural hermaphrodite, carrying both male and female sex organs).
Shinsei Bank has become a highly profitable financial institution but only after half its assets were written off by the government and a large contingent of outside experts came in to shake up its inbred corporate culture.
Ten years ago scientists had no other way to track down genes than by combing through large, well-documented family trees, such as those of Mormons, or of relatively inbred populations, such as the Ashkenazi Jews from Europe. (Inbreeding makes gene mutations easier to find.) Such genealogical searches take years.
My books include the novels "Sellout" and "Wink" and several educational titles (subjects varying from drug abuse and its impact on society, a historical look at domestic spying, and a biography of Bill Gates) as well as "Tested XX" - the bestselling history of my rather inbred family, which also happens to be America's oldest family of knife-makers, the infamous Case clan.
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