Word: tribalized
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...East. Over the past decade, as much as four-fifths of that ivory has been of illegal origin -- poached, then smuggled. Sometimes the poachers cross borders to hunt, as from Somalia into Kenya or Zambia into Zimbabwe, then carry the tusks back by night. Some poachers are tribal villagers, illiterate and poor, who stalk their prey on foot, walking for weeks, living off game. A poacher in Kenya says he believes tribal charms make him invisible to antipoaching units. He buries his tusks in the village latrine or hides them in a nearby cave. He sells them for a pittance...
...have a law which applies only to members of a particular religious group. Hmmm... This brings up the obvious question: "Why doesn't the law require believers in tribal religions to have insurance that will pay for the services of witch doctors...
...from the Ohlone tribe, to their descendants. Nonetheless, many curators and anthropologists are worried that a sweeping national policy would empty museums across the land. Scholars argue that preserved skeletons and other human artifacts, particularly those of great antiquity, provide essential information on problems ranging from the organization of tribal societies to the origin of certain diseases, like rheumatoid arthritis...
...managers on such soul-searing topics as "Who are you?," "What have you abandoned?" and "What should grace enable us to be?" In a similar vein, De Pree provides a list of telltale signs that a company is in trouble. Among them: a proliferation of manuals, the disappearance of "tribal stories" that preserve a firm's traditions, and a "dark tension among key people...
...misery is a 1943 "national pact" reaffirming that the predominance of power would be held by the majority Christian community. Since then, the Muslim population has overwhelmed the Christian count, but the political arrangements have not been altered to reflect the Muslims' strength. Until that imbalance is redressed, tribal hostilities will not cease...