Word: token
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Some divestiture proponents even disagree with the whole idea of bringing students over because in their view the scholarships legitimize the South African system and cloud the issue by making a token gesture...
Some in the Administration are confidently predicting that when the moment of truth arrives, the Soviets will find a way of avoiding a walkout or at least of limiting it to a token temper tantrum, a brief pout before getting back to the bargaining table. Another fashionable view in Washington right now is that regardless of their extreme distaste for the Reagan Administration, the Soviet leaders are pragmatic enough to realize that they need a breakthrough in the arms talks at least as much as the U.S. does, and that they probably stand to get a better deal before November...
There are other consequences. If the whole world is like me, then certain conflicts become incomprehensible; the very notion of intractability becomes paradoxical. When the U.S. embassy in Tehran is taken over, Americans are bewildered. What does the Ayatullah want? The U.S. Government sends envoys to find out what token or signal or symbolic gesture might satisfy Iran. It is impossible to believe that the Ayatullah wants exactly what he says he wants: the head of the Shah. Things are not done that way any more in the West (even the Soviet bloc has now taken to pensioning off deposed...
Nonetheless, Jackson is sounding more and more like a serious candidate. His keynote address to PUSH delegates paid only token attention to civil rights concerns and contained lengthy sections on economic and foreign policy. In traditional campaign-rally style, his wife Jacqueline, usually absent from his appearances, was in the audience at Atlanta. "I'm reluctant to run," Jackson says. "But I'm convinced somebody ought to go." Critical to the decision, which he says he will make in September: the congealing of his "rainbow coalition" of blacks, Hispanics, women, peace activists and environmentalists. But with an exploratory...
...Connor's dissent was closely reasoned and forcefully written. To some legal experts, that was more important than her conclusions. In a touchy and highly visible case, O'Connor showed she was not a token woman but a Justice of conviction...