Word: token
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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When Morrison's Pulitzer was viewed by some as a token bestowed to appease a racial minority, a grave injustice was done a great writer. That attempt to discredit Morrison's accomplishment, though she was vindicated by being awarded the Nobel, should remind discerning readers how such concepts as affirmative action have victimized the very people they were originally intended to affirm. It is time to let go of an outdated system and give people credit based solely on merit, blind to race, by eliminating special admissions standards and token vacancies...
...same token, we have the right to denounce his testimony as irresponsible, insulting and false. Furthermore, given that Mansfield was addressing not passers by in the Square but a judge and jury which will decide whether or not Colorado gays will have rights, and given that Mansfield was speaking not merely as a private citizen but as a tenured Harvard professor whose words carry the weight of the University's implicit approval, we feel that we have an urgent responsibility to react publicly to Mansfield's remarks...
Included among "sorts of things" are token-operated bathrooms. The manager of one shop said the toilets were a security measure added before construction began...
...such a settlement were to rely on anything more than token U.N. military support, however, it might be doomed. Boutros-Ghali notes that U.N. members have stubbornly not put up the money that could finance Somalian peace -- funds needed to organize police forces or a judicial system, for example. So American troops might have to pull out with no settlement in place, and if Somalia remains dangerous, it seems unlikely that other troops will stay after the Yanks go. Boutros-Ghali remarks that France, Italy, Belgium, Jordan and Tunisia are already talking about pulling out even before the U.S. does...
Today, however, "women in the legal professionare establishing new traditions by their actionsand their numbers afford assurance against areturn to old ways," Ginsburg said. "The days ofthe token, one-at-a-time woman are indeed over...