| The various shocks that have convulsed the Japanese economy in the past decade have tested traditional management shibboleths to destruction. |
| The old pre-war shibboleths of laissez-faire, including the hallowed principle of free trade itself, were bypassed or ignored. |
| But discarding a few outmoded shibboleths does not create a society that is at ease with itself and free of class anxieties, frictions and divisions. |
| Here's hoping that his misrendering of toponymic shibboleths is the worst damage they suffer. |
| It's not bad to be reminded that there's a whole horde of men of his generation out there in the sticks for whom the old shibboleths are pretty important. |
| In fact, it appears to us that a number of longstanding economic shibboleths are about to be blown apart if the dollar's descent continues. |
