Word: token
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Dean of Freshman Henry C. Moses III to allow minority groups to publicize their Freshman Week orientation events in a separate calendar is indicative of the growing institutional conservatism regarding minority concerns. Moses' concession, in light of student protest against the FDO last spring, is little more than a token response to student demands. Far from following the spirit of the proposals of 1969, the College has become largely content with a hands off approach to race relations. By leaving the implementation of minority programs solely to students, the administration is effectively forfeiting its social responsibility...
...seconds over Tokyo as an Air Force squadron commander during World War II earned now retired Lieut. General James Doolittle the Congressional Medal of Honor. Other highflying exploits earned him a Distinguished Flying Cross and a Silver Star. Of course, it still takes all those medals and a token to get on the bus. But now Doolittle, 87, has an honor he could use while piloting his car along the lower altitudes of the California freeway system: personalized license plates. Following an act of the legislature, Doolittle and about two dozen other Congressional Medal of Honor winners living...
...reason is, of course, that even talk of loosening the U.S.'s nuclear ties to Western Europe could have disastrous consequences for the Alliance. Yet, by the same token, it should be argued that a continuation of our less and less credible nuclear umbrella would, in the long run, have similarly divisive effects...
...much of his ideological program as he can, Mr. Reagan has managed to hurt poor women and minorities disproportionately. Even extreme liberals must acknowledge that the primary reason for this lies in socioeconomic trends and changes far beyond the full control of any liberal democracy. But by the same token Mr. Reagan's failure to see these realities at all constitute a corresponding failure of the very same liberal democracy, and this will be an enduring problem for whoever sits in the Oval Office...
Ferguson's very competence and his activism often obscured the still pressing need for more minority professors at the Law School; as an involved and highly respected scholar on human rights, affirmative action, and the new international economic order, he transcended the ugly word "token." The Law Faculty should take his death not as a setback but as an inspiration to carry out the reforms he endorsed...