The latter is a lot less insular and a lot more aware that it exists in a greater world.
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Major Japanese companies have, historically, been reluctant to bring outsiders into the boardroom, a pattern that many corporate-governance experts have said has led to insular management and a number of high-profile corporate scandals in recent years.
The medieval fortress town of Laval in western France is small and insular, with a population of around 50, 000.
That change goes beyond the public ownership in what has been a remarkably insular operation.
It helps to be broad (and to be avoid being very insular) when building a career.
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Scots can be insular, but on a good day, they take the national bard's advice to see themselves as others see them.
When Sullivan started getting messages from his colleagues in the recruiting industry while they were traveling on Google's behalf in Europe, he knew the once-insular company was beginning a global push.
Look what Gerstner did for a once-insular IBM or Harvey Golub at American Express.
This puts Obama and insular liberals like him at a substantial political disadvantage.
George W. Bush entered office with a modest, insular agenda, focussed on tax cuts and programs like No Child Left Behind.
In a less empirical, less technological, more insular world, the brand of school one attended did matter in networking, in gaining employment, and in negotiating a reasonable starting salary.
The Penn State program also developed a reputation as being unusually insular.
But folks who constantly agree with one another grow insular, self-congratulatory, and not a little lazy.
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"The abuse of a child cannot be swept under the rug or dealt with by insular groups believing only they know what is best for their community, " District Attorney Charles Hynes said in a statement.
Here is President Obama's dilemma in a nutshell: He is the most insular President we've ever had.
But it does point to a rather convoluted relationship embodied in a series of Supreme Court decisions called the Insular Cases.
My son has connected me to my country in a way that I was too selfish and insular to experience before.
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Between its first appearance on a Spanish map in 1622 and its fond farewell in a Japanese publication of 1865, California appeared insular on at least 249 separate maps.
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It cited Penn State's "excessive focus on athletics" and showed how under Paterno, a football-mad university created its own insular, reality distortion field, one in which to "avoid the consequences of bad publicity, " facts were brushed away and concealed.
Tanaka believes a key weakness of corporate Japan has been its insular attitude.
However, "audits can sometimes be quite insular and silo-like, " said Ronald Aucutt, a partner at the law firm of McGuire Woods.
"It is ironic that a man whose own organization is infamous for its insular, ineffective and uncertain command and control arrangements would be charged with resolving the infinitely more complex and problematic arrangements involved in Operation Desert Shield, " observed Frank J.
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Some of their leeriness is cultural--a fast-talking money guy horning in on an insular society.
Fenelon knew, having run a company that supplied plastics to automakers, just how insular and risk-averse that industry is.
His marriage to Marilyn Monroe was a tragedy waiting to happen, the coupling of an insular, wary man to an insecure, spotlight-craving sex goddess, and Cramer describes it fearlessly.
They are the fingers and eyes and noses of the computer, bringing the world (be it a car crash, pressure in a fuel line, or light in a fiber-optic network) into the boxed, insular space that sits quietly on desktops.
The arrest of Yoel Malik, 33, of Brooklyn comes amid mounting pressure to report allegations of abuse within the insular, secretive community, the largest outside Israel, and barely a week after a respected religious counselor in the same sect was sentenced to 103 years in prison for sexually abusing a girl.
Quite frankly, I thought the program was too progressive, diverse and well-rounded to come from a team, as the marketing generally seen from teams is insular and without risk.
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In contrast to the insular nature of American media and policy discussion, openDemocracy is well reflective of a cosmopolitan and internationalist left engaged in a broader discourse.
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Nothing lasts forever, though, and now a combination of energy independence and economic necessity may lead Washington to become more insular in its outlook, the same way London did after the war.
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