Word: token
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...same token, the management skills needed to restore a crisis-ridden company to profitability may not be the same as those required for years of sustainable growth. "CEOs don't singlehandedly turn around a large organization," says Paul Coombes, a director of corporate governance at McKinsey & Co. "The problem is that strategies change at a fast rate and need to keep adapting quickly, but organizational changes of a lasting sort require a great deal of patience." That may be. But at least the new boys know where they stand: if they mess up, they...
...found that I could use this truncated version of my cultural identity as a means of setting myself apart, if and when I felt compelled to. I was the token Indian who gave cultural presentations about South Asia in World Cultures class. Clad in a traditional salwaar kameez, I would bring in Indian snacks and handicrafts, and explain to my—no doubt fascinated—classmates that India is a land of great diversity, where 21 different languages are spoken, and that’s not even counting the dialects! One year I wore one of my Indian...
...year. This year, it received sponsorship from the Undergraduate Council, the Harvard Foundation, the Harvard School of Public Health Dean’s Office, the GSE and other sources from across campus. But without exclusive recruitment and without a stronger Native studies presence, the University will only be making token gestures and continue to fail to uphold its end of a 300-year-old promise...
...mails processed—according to the e-mail-filtering firm MessageLabs. The virus launched a vengeance Denial of Service attack against the SCO Group, a company that has claimed ownership of some of the code used in open-source Linux distributions. With millions of computers sending token bits of data 12 times every second, Mydoom’s attack would have easily overrun SCO’s servers. But SCO just changed its domain name temporarily and avoided the Mydoom-mediated wrath of its pro-open-source assailants. Though Mydoom failed in its main objective, it succeeded in proving...
...were on Alias. You're going to be on The Simpsons. You can be the token Brit on every American show...