Word: token
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...would be extremely concerned if [Harvard] felt that the inclusion of one token representative would sufficiently cover the need for increased attention toward Ethnic Studies and/or Asian American Studies," she said...
...does some good things, but it's just a token," Stevenson said. "It's not given as much power of the purse as other college undergraduate councils...
Balancing the humor is plenty of heart-pounding action and suspense--the Indiana Jones survival tactics, sprays of gunfire, sharp blows and the heavy thud of falling bodies. And of course, the token patriotic fervor of America versus foreign terrorists, as Marshall, unable to cut the red, white and blue wires, correctly chooses the yellow and green...
...radio stations said they couldn't play me because they already had another singer-songwriter on their playlist," McLachlan says. "In this case it was Tori Amos. That was very marginalizing because our music is completely different. They were saying, 'Go away--we've added our token female this week...
...couple classes where it seems like it's this token thing [professors] have to do," says Elizabeth R. Beasley '98, a social studies concentrator...