But in one relatively small and somewhat hermetic realm, Volcker is known for something else entirely.
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The result is a work that is both frustratingly hermetic and strangely impersonal.
Japan's bubble was inflated by confidence in the country's industrial planners and in its hermetic club of aging corporate shoguns.
Moreover, North Korea's civilians are not, despite decades of effort by Pyongyang, totally ignorant about conditions outside the hermetic state.
The difference is that, with government an increasingly hermetic place, it will be harder than ever to tell the two apart.
"This is a remarkably cold, hostile, hermetic place, " he tells CNN.
And then, as I grew into adulthood and began my own explorations into the bigger world, my image retreated to the hermetic world of an envelope in a desk drawer .
To drill the well, engineers have devised an ingenious system of hollow "riser pipes" that create a hermetic seal between the well opening on the sea floor and the ship swaying above.
This allowed Halle to transform a field that was often hermetic, with grad students working alone in the library, into a group exercise, characterized by discussion, Socratic interrogation, and the vigorous exchange of clashing perspectives.
Interviews in Rome with dozens of church officials, Vatican insiders and foreign government officials close to the church, many of whom spoke on the condition of anonymity for fear of retribution, mapped out that hermetic universe.
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For all her well-attested poise and intelligence, she did not find the hermetic needs of her novelist husband agreeable (she may, as biographers have speculated, have been rather disappointed with Waugh in other aspects of married life too).
But the Getty Museum's acquisition in 1987 of "Christ's Entry into Brussels in 1889" painted when Ensor was just 28, and kept by the hermetic artist until his death has allowed visitors to the Los Angeles museum to see the brash young painter in a brilliant new light.
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