Word: token
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Lynch has shunned scientific market analysis and short-term speculation. He has often held stocks for many years, as long as the companies remained healthy. By the same token, he has been quick to sell when he recognized that a stock was going bad. As he notes in his book, "You won't improve results by pulling out the flowers and watering the weeds...
...give formal blessing to a plebiscite with three options: independence, statehood or a modified form of commonwealth giving the island greater self-government. A month later, George Bush endorsed the proposal and reaffirmed the G.O.P.'s traditional support for statehood. But Bush signaled that he intended more than the token effort made by Republican predecessors. Bush and the Republican National Committee are trying to pry Hispanics from their traditional Democratic loyalty. Proposing full political equality for the island seized from Spain in 1898 helps that effort...
...same token, Bush could send ambassadors extraordinary and plenipotentiary to Kabul, Luanda, Havana and Hanoi to engage the leaders there constructively rather than treating them like avatars of Moscowcentric world communism, a phenomenon that no longer exists. For the U.S. to stop & withholding or hedging recognition of those regimes would be a big step toward recognizing how much the world is changing...
...Columbia law professor Vincent Blasi. "The First Amendment protects only the right to ask, not the right to harass." In fact, several days after his ruling, Judge Sand modified the decision to allow the MTA to regulate panhandling more selectively by banning solicitations on moving subway cars and near token booths...
...Jammu and Kashmir, to resign in protest. Eager to demonstrate his goodwill, Jagmohan has distributed food during curfews, created new jobs and offered nearly $3,000 each to the families of three civilians killed by Indian guards. But tempers in Kashmir are still too short to be soothed by token measures...