Word: token
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Still, the passing of the 85-cent fare will have its place in the emotional history of the city. The price of a subway token, after all, is like the price of baseball cards or a gallon of milk: it's one of the measures by which each generation of Americans complains about the next. For every one of us, the day will come when we will catch ourselves reminiscing to our children--or maybe just to first-years --about the days when a T ride only cost 85 cents (and when the bleacher seats at old Fenway Park were...
...name of inevitable progress, fades one of the quotidian figures of life in Boston. Thousands of stickers on token booths will be scraped away; hundreds of thousands of commuters will slowly forget the multiples of 85 cents. The city's quirky transportation system, its fares no longer quaintly nestled under the barrier of a dollar, rumbles into the 21st century...
...ideals of feminism if an unqualified woman assumed the University presidency. But there are women with the leadership qualities, vision and administrative experience who can escort our University into the next century. It is not enough that the short list of presidential candidates includes a few token women and minorities--one of them should be offered the position...
...your story about the possible vice-presidential picks of George W. Bush and Al Gore [NATION, July 17], I was a little surprised to see Defense Secretary Bill Cohen as a possible Veep pick by Gore. Choosing the token Republican in the Clinton Cabinet is hardly the way to mend fences with Democratic liberals who are toying with supporting Ralph Nader's Green Party candidacy. The choice of Cohen would just add credence to Nader's line that the big parties are mirror images of each other. JOHN T. ZELAZO Adams, Mass...
Outside the hall, thousands of demonstrators think the Republicans--not the token white males on the platform, but the 82 percent of audience which is them--don't care about them and their causes...