It is well known that boards of directors form a rather cliquish corporate elite.

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The twenties, possibly alone among the middle decades of life, are passionately celebrated in fiction and memoirs, and the celebrations tend to share a style that is personal, specific, cliquish, pastiched, breathless, often bibulous, and flagrantly confessional the voice of early mastery without mature constraint, self-discovery at a moment when each revelation seems unique.

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Early generations of Moncler jackets might have warmed climbers on the world's tallest peaks and downhill racers at the Olympics and the subsequent boom in winter sports tourism of the 1970s helped catapult the label to cult status among the cliquish ski towns of the Alps but its consumer base remained small and essentially European.

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