“Everyone knew Detroit’s reputation for insular, slow-moving cultures, ” he told Fortune magazine of the pre-bail out state of the car makers.

在谈到汽车制造商之前采取的应急措施时，瓦格纳向财富杂志表示：“底特律固步自封、行动迟缓的名声家喻户晓。

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The Penn State program also developed a reputation as being unusually insular.

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An even greater shock to the sensibilities of the insular, Manhattan-centric media, the report found that most of the movement from the Empire State was not from the much-dissed suburbia, but from that hip and cool paragon, New York City.

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