Word: tribalized
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...place many government services online --To give parents tax breaks to help pay for child care --To support tribal sovereignty --To give tax credits to help children care for their elderly parents --To make it a federal crime to sell Social Security numbers...
America Online learns its p.r. lessons quickly. Even as it continues to deny competitors such as Microsoft, Tribal Voice and Odigo (blocked, Odigo says, six times in the past two weeks) access to its teeming Instant Messaging network, the online giant floated a proposal that would throw open the doors. Politically, the proposal is perfect for softening the scowl of trustbusters eyeing the AOL-Time Warner merger, and it's also very handy technically in that it doesn't offer any details whatsoever on how outside linkups would be allowed. That, according to AOL, is a security issue...
...Fijian standoff in sight more than two weeks after coup leader George Speight and a handful of cronies first seized Mahendra Chaudry and 30 other civilians as hostages, the prime minister of the Solomon Islands on Monday found himself sharing his Fijian counterpart's fate. Gunmen from a tribal militia have taken Bartholomew Ulufa'alu hostage and forced him to announce his retirement. And although the two territories are thousands of miles apart, the link between Speight's actions and those of the Malaita Eagle Force in the Solomon Islands is unmistakable - both are the result of ethnic tensions that...
...While Bly defines himself as a poet, he is perhaps most widely known not for his poetry but for his controversial 1989 book, Iron John: A Book About Men, which used a fairy tale to urge men to get in touch with their masculine, tribal nature...
Despite Western allies, the world's last bloc of true monarchies--Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, the little gulf sheikdoms, Morocco and Jordan--isn't off the hook either. Monarchy went out of political fashion in the 20th century. Most Arab dynasts have held on thanks to oil, isolation or tribal and family loyalties. But petrodollars also educated a generation now eager to connect with a globalizing world...