After the cold war ended, though, this self-regulating and rather self-important culture has come under scrutiny.
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Mr Kaufman writes that the "self-important activists" within the Jewish community know too little of politics.
"This sort of self-important, self-involved thing seemed funny to me, " he said in the notes.
Self-important CEOs demonstrate an ability to act on their supreme confidence when others are timid.
An early target may be Rem Vyakhirev, the self-important boss of Gazprom, the national gas company.
That is a welcome contrast to the self-important style of many lesser journalists' books about great events.
Filmmaker Jonathan Nossiter depicted Rolland as a self-important popinjay, contemptuous of any palate other than his own.
Most of the big festivals have largely replaced the traditional fare of self-important authorial readings with discussions and debates.
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And they are often conjured into existence by self-important managerial types who consider it their actual full-time job to attend meetings.
But if anyone can take blogging from an almost obscure hobby for self-important would-be pundits to a revenue-generating phenomenon, it's Google.
The self-important accountant in charge tries to brush aside our hero's questions.
But the chocolate that Emmy Award winning Today Show co-host Hoda Kotb picked as her favorite thing was not a new, trendy, or self-important brand.
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In many areas of life, Americans cheerfully accept that the law intrudes too much: they accept the case for tort reform, and they dislike self-important judges.
And it remains exactly the same organisation: a self-important body that treats its members like demi-gods and requires a super-majority of 60 votes even to break a filibuster.
We work with over-complicated stuff involving lots of over-complicated jargon made up by self-important digit-heads who like to keep people in the dark because it makes them feel more important.
How many self-important people are there in positions of power, restrained by ethics or decorum from telling us all what they really think, and only a few keystrokes away from doing so?
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If anything, this was close to whistle-blowing: the person did not put their name in the data (in a self-important way), and in fact released a memo suggesting a clear whistle-blowing mentality in the second round of revelations.
In keeping with the anti-elitism of his boss, Rupert Murdoch, Thomson has always been publicly dismissive of the Pulitzers and other journalism awards, saying they reward exactly the kind of prolix, self-important writing readers can do without.
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Not that Bryan Singer has a particularly light touch, and indeed the script's narrative bookends land with a dull thud, but at least the "X-Men" director hasn't succumbed to the self-important bloat that mars Peter Jackson's work these days.
Midnight calls, clandestine meetings, threatening e-mail messages, not to mention cell phones used as obsessively as lances and shields in a jousting epic: the circuits never stop burning in this self-important but juicily entertaining public-affairs melodrama about big-time journalism and corporate villainy.
Hamer, who also helped write the script, brings a dozen characters to boisterous life, including a sax player with wandering eyes (Sydney Tafler), his super-slick brother (John Slater), who owns an amusement arcade and fixes local fights, an unholy trio of small-time thieves, an infuriatingly self-important fence, an intrepid police inspector, and an irrepressible reporter.
Given that self-control is important for maintaining social order and personal well-being, this subtle effect could have widespread impact.
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This kind of modesty has often held women back in organizations, but the need to use social media professionally makes it overcoming a reluctance to self-market more important.
Topics such as conflict resolution, self-awareness, effective communication, and cross-cultural understanding are vitally important for interpersonal effectiveness and self-actualization.
Although breast self-awareness is critically important, it does not negate the impact that mammography has on reducing mortality from breast cancer.
Those important self-realizations are what started me down the entrepreneurial road.
He talked about a diverse student body being educational in itself, but that sort of wishful thinking supports the notion that self-esteem is more important than physics.
And lawyers representing taxpayers with undisclosed offshore accounts are asking the United States Supreme Court to clarify the scope of the privilege against self-incrimination in this important context.
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