Word: token
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Arab leaders largely ignored Saddam's request. Kuwait, which had been supporting Iraq financially throughout the war, offered only a token amount. Saddam's subsequent troop movements seemed like posturing to American military experts. But on August 2, Saddam invaded Kuwait...
Ovitz predicts that the Japanese style of long-term planning will help bring stability to Hollywood. "That's very important to creative people," he says. By the same token, he feels that Americans will grow more comfortable with such global alliances. "It's crystal clear that we are no longer an isolationist country...
...January, more than 400,000 American troops will be in Saudi Arabia. The Soviet Union thus far has courteously endorsed our policies in the Gulf, but Red Army troops won't be there. Support from most of our Western allies is token. China abstained from the Security Council resolution. Half of the troops Syria promised have not been sent. Egypt will fight in Kuwait but not in Iraq. Is this a new world order...
What price freedom? The question on the lips of East Europeans a year ago seemed to have been answered when communist dictatorships gave way one after another without offering more than token resistance. The startling disintegration of the East bloc registered a 7, maybe an 8, on a Richter scale of this century's most significant events, yet the bill for half a dozen revolutions seemed exceedingly modest. The cost of erasing the 45-year-old political division of Europe and opening the way toward democratic pluralism and free-market economies: a few hundred killed, mainly in Romania...
...might have been otherwise had President Bush not waited until after the election to announce that he was nearly doubling U.S. troop strength in the Persian Gulf. As it was, only a few sitting members of Congress were defeated, hardly enough to make more than a token difference in the composition of the Senate (where the Democrats picked up one seat) and the House (where they picked up eight). In fact, the most significant result involved a politician who wasn't even on the ballot. For if the election of 1990 changed nothing else, it undermined the perception that George...