Those bonds have been forged by fighting battles in which an outsider tries to scale mountains tightly-guarded by elites.

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The only real initiative in the past two years has been to pump billions of roubles of subsidies into banks with which an impartial outsider would hesitate to play Monopoly.

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That makes him an outsider which surely puts him at a disadvantage with the FCC and the DOJ.

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Every CEO brings a unique strategy and culture change, which the next CEO overturns, especially when an outsider is chosen.

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In an era in which Washington remains toxic to voters, Walker presents himself as a reform-minded outsider who pushed an effort to strip public employee unions of most of their collective bargaining rights.

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That makes it likely that Martin will eventually be run by an outsider for the first time in its history--which unnerves Martin groupies.

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Cunningham was told that if he sold his stock to an outsider GM would back out of the deal--which would probably end the venture.

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To an outsider it seems strange that less than 50 years ago the liberal traditions for which the United States is admired were so unevenly observed.

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