Word: tribalized
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Those who know the tunnels--the B&G workers who service the pipes, and Thomas Tribal, Harvard's manager of Energy and Systems-rarely spin such yarns, and instead speak of the utility of these energy-efficient heating highways. Behind this steam screen of infamy and intrigue is really an emphatically nuts and bolts operation that supplies heat to most of the University...
...Grounds to keep up tight security. Not only are the locations of tunnel entrances kept secret, but also all external doors are locked and doors within the tunnels are wired to sound an alarm in the control room. Any unauthorized tourists in the tunnels can be detected immediately, says Tribal...
...some honker place like Lake Forest, Ill., or Longeyeland. She got to be called a Valley Girl because of the hot five-minute single record by that name in which Frank Zappa and his maximum brilliant 15-year-old daughter Moon Unit lampooned the San Fernando species and its tribal habits. Valley Girls are by no means mere pubescent versions of the California Girl but exist, in differing regional colorations, from coast to coast. Like Zappa, puts...
...months Moi has shown an increasingly authoritarian bent. He has ordered the detention, without charges, of seven people, including four Nairobi University lecturers, presumably for expressing reservations about his rule, and the lawyer who took up their case. In June, after the country's most prominent left-wing tribal leader, Oginga Odinga (a member of Kenya's second-largest tribe, the Luo), who is known as "Mr. Double O," reportedly threatened to form an opposition socialist party, Moi rammed through a constitutional amendment converting K.A.N.U.'s de facto one-party rule in Kenya to formal status...
...mine owners' reaction was swift and severe. Only hours after the smoke had cleared, thousands of black workers received dismissal notices and were preparing to be bused back to their tribal homelands. At West Driefontein mine, 1,233 blacks out of a work force of 12,000 were fired and sent home; 2,000 were transported from the Kloof gold mine. Those remaining were warned that their contracts would be revoked if they refused to join their work shift. Said one mine manager: "We'll have no trouble replacing the men who left. It will just take some...