Both pose long-term obstacles, especially to attracting cutting edge technology companies, said Mitchell Pally, chief executive of the Long Island Builders' Institute.
The standards are high and kept high, the teachers are more 'old school' with proper discipline standards and teacher-pupil relationships rather than pally-pally garbage.
The rebels remember the pally relationship between Muammar Qaddafi and Silvio Berlusconi, the Italian prime minister (who this week said he would probably stand down when his mandate expires in 2013 and named a possible successor, Angelino Alfano, the justice minister).