They're marked by a boldness and anti-insider stance that proclaims the sky -- literally -- is the limit.
JIMMY CARTER and his wife, Rosalynn, arrived in the capital in 1977 determined not to socialize with the insider crowd, a stance that rankled Democrats in Washington.
He has also continued to be very much the provocateur inside the company, adopting the stance of the Insider as Outsider.
The City regulator has signalled a new hardline stance on insider dealing, handing down a record fine of nearly £1m to a Turkish oil company executive.
The SEC has been taking an aggressive stance against insider trading in recent months, with Chairman Mary Schapiro calling it a "problem of tremendous magnitude," and the agency filing more than 100 cases related to insider trading between 2010 and 2011.
Federal prosecutors' increasingly aggressive and public stance in pursuing insider trading has led to headline-grabbing convictions and stepped-up compliance procedures at hedge funds.
With the stance of an insider given unparalleled access to her subjects, the starry-eyed Lacy tells the stories of a half-dozen or so young entrepreneurs who started Web sites like Facebook and YouTube, all driven by user-generated content.
Since her husband's tenure in office, Silicon Valley insiders have recognized the supportive stance in the New Democrats' fiscal policies.
They often had fewer people in attendance than those organised in cheaper halls by trade unions and charities, but they were rallies of the New Labour insiders, reinforcing their pro-business stance.
All of which dovetails with Spruce's overall goal of looking at fashion from an outsider's stance, not the expert insider's -- i.e., writing less about designers, stylists and models and more about products themselves.
Most Wall Street insiders are expecting the Fed to change its stance to a neutral bias, opening the door for a rate cut in the first-quarter of fiscal 2001.
