Those homes, nearly all within a dozen blocks of the beach, have been insulated for year-round habitation.
It was insulated for a while because many of its biggest customers buy one-year contracts, and it kept growing for much of last year.
The head of state is meant to rise grandly above the rough-and-tumble, leaving his prime minister to carry the can when things go wrong.Yet Mr Valls's popularity is so broadly based that he may be insulated for longer than most.
He is a selfish and rather foolish old man who has been insulated for too long from the small storms of the world that shake the less fortunate on a daily basis: the minor betrayals and indignities, the illnesses and inconveniences.
Analysts consider the U.S. economy to be insulated, for now, from the world's travails mainly because exports account for only about 13% of its total economic output and foreign sales for only 10% of total sales by the 500 major companies in the S&P 500 index.
The experiment used a matched-pairs cross-over design, that is, one nest of a pair was insulated for 48h, while its paired nest acted as a control (first period of the experiment), then the insulation was swapped within the pair and the previously insulated nest served as a control for 48h, while its paired nest was insulated (second period of the experiment).
It was that attitude that enabled the Arab world to be insulated from history for the last 50 years — to be ruled for decades by the same kings and dictators.
As a result, the report said, Fannie might not be insulated from liability for their misconduct.
His resignation, barely 12 hours later, suggested that the BBC's trustees had concluded that the argument that the network's top brass was insulated from responsibility for programming decisions by a lack of prior knowledge was not sustainable.
