Word: token
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...estimated 2.7 million people ride New York City's subways each day, most of them using 75? tokens. But so many foreign coins, manufactured slugs and whatnot are stuffed into the turnstiles that the financially troubled system loses up to $1 million in revenues each year. Now there is a new drain on income: a 17½? token issued in October by Connecticut Turnpike officials for use in the state's automatic toll booths that is almost exactly the same size and shape as a subway token. Says one New York official: "Somebody did some sloppy work...
Wherever the blame is put, Reagan has made only a token effort to reduce the deficit in his next budget. In the two weeks following the elections, he and his advisers held nine meetings to map out fiscal 1984 budget proposals, which will be presented to Congress in refined form two months from now. The rough cut: $26 billion to be taken exclusively from non-defense spending, including $8 billion from Social Security benefits, leaving a deficit estimated at a minimum of $180 billion. Budget Director David Stockman said it could even rise as high as $195 billion unless changes...
Interim Force in Lebanon offered little more than token resistance as Israeli tanks roared past U.N. checkpoints in southern Lebanon on their way to Beirut...
...services were conducted, etc. These slow, slow ramblings inevitably end up with Maybelle . .. and then he breaks down and sobs and we all gaze at each other in wild surmise. He admitted to me under a pledge of deep secrecy the other morning that he was 71. I expressed token amazement because the poor dear looks and behaves like 90. There is much that is sweet about him, but he is, and always has been, almost intolerably silly...
...graduate of Loyola University in Chicago Rhoads describes himself as a "token conservative President Reagan "is doing a good job, he says "But we will have to keep up the pressure on him so he doesn't go the way of Ford and Nixon in diluting his principles...