Even HSBC, a British bank with a sterling reputation, ingrained prudence and a history of astute acquisitions has stumbled in recent years when entering markets where unfamiliarity prevented it from bringing these traits to bear.
Compared with the film-makers of Hollywood, who populate Los Angeles' most venerable cluster, or the metal workers in northern Italy, who have been around for centuries, toytown lacks a distinctive and deeply ingrained collection of skills that make a region's advantage so hard to imitate.
Perhaps a long-ingrained preference for permanence is being replaced by a desire for the perpetually changing.
Closing that gap, which the government wants to do, is only partly a matter of tax policy: ingrained attitudes to religion, a big recipient of American giving, and to the state help to explain it.
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Arguments like the one over Augusta National matter, because they shine a bright light on the ingrained attitudes that should be no longer acceptable in a civilized society.
But she has found it difficult to persuade colleagues to go on walking meetings, partly because of the ingrained ideas of what a meeting should entail.
Every case officer in every posting around the globe has a deeply ingrained sense of mission, and that mission is spelled out in the form of requirements.
These vaunted protectors of our historical legacy, pieces of cloth that stand between our filthy hands and many American treasures, are ingrained in the mind as a required wear during a visit to an archive.
The school's reputation as an NBA factory has become so ingrained that it's almost a self-fulfilling prophecy: Carolina continues to churn out top players because recruits know Carolina churns out pros.
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It caused me to reboot my ingrained thinking and come up with a new game plan for how to joyfully participate in the holiday season in a way that felt right to me.
Such deeply ingrained scepticism did wane, briefly, a few years ago.
And it is so ingrained in the DNA of APPL that only a deliberate deviation from that idea can screw it up.
Vladimir Milov, another young opposition politician, told me that, while Navalny would make a fine Presidential candidate, the ingrained mistrust that Russians have of politics would make the transition difficult.
"This is a clear indication that deflation is really ingrained in Japanese economy and it is inevitable that the central bank will have to do something to tackle it, " Martin Schulz of Fujitsu Research Institute told the BBC.
The lesson learned was basic and deeply ingrained: borrowing to buy assets above your means is a sketchy proposition, as the recent owners of 16.5 million foreclosed houses will attest.
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Ambassador HANSJORG KRETSCHMER (European Commission): We should not forget that what Turkey is trying to achieve in these years is rather a revolutionary change of attitudes which have been ingrained in Turkey for many decades.
Consumers: Anyone deeply ingrained in the TechCrunch scene is the first to download a cool new app, stand in line for hours to get the newest iPhone, or pass along VC jokes with their friends from Buzzfeed.
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Those high margins are protected, of course, by a ring of defensive regulations, Bar Association rules and deeply ingrained habits that make it hard for an investor-controlled business to crack the legal profession.
When they get an opportunity it is ingrained in them to play by numbers, so you see them returning a bad kick with another bad kick, and it is very difficult to get out of.
Above all, Cape Town is a multicultural city, where respect for different ways of living is ingrained.
If people think that their private photos and videos can be shared in a manner that is truly self-destructing (as has been ingrained thanks to movies such as the Mission Impossible series) they are more likely to send them to others.
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Once they had shown that the habit was fully ingrained, the researchers wanted to see if they could break it by interfering with a part of the prefrontal cortex known as the infralimbic (IL) cortex.
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Gaming will eventually eclipse the movie industry in sales, as titles sell for 6x that of movie tickets, and it will become ingrained into the culture of nearly all age groups, from old to young, as a generations raised on games grow up.
Philanthropy is ingrained in the Tata DNA unlike Ambani who for all his riches has yet to make a noteworthy mark in the area of charity. (He recently ignored an invitation by Bill Gates and Warren Buffet to attend a philanthropy reception in New Delhi, to watch a cricket match).
But truly tackling racism would require a more profound shift -- for individuals to re-examine and dismiss deeply ingrained personal prejudices.
The trick to investing well for a rebound is sorting out which big tech is truly down on general uncertainty and not some more ingrained problem.
And, says Knaysi, not only has medicine gotten much more complex with "a huge menu of options" for testing and therapy, but the fear of lawsuits has become ingrained in both doctors' and hospitals' minds.
He said research in Britain, Australia and the US suggested that a warning or a caution from a police officer tended to stop stalking but only "if it happens before the obsessive behaviour becomes ingrained".
Given attitudes like this that are deeply ingrained in ordinary Americans, we have to rely upon business and government leaders to lead the way and promote a spirit of trust and cooperation between the two leading superpowers of the world.
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