Word: token
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
However sincere Bok was in his request for letters, students regarded it as a token effort. After Bok rejected their demands to set up a student committee to screen the final candidates, they formed the Coaltition for Responsible Dean Selection (CORDS) to protest their exclusion from the selection process...
...spending surges, the tax burden grows steadily heavier. Next year federal revenues will consume 22% of the gross national product, up from 18% in 1976. Carter's budget includes no personal tax relief in 1981 and only a token $9 billion cut in 1982. Even that reduction will not offset increases in Social Security levies that will boost individual taxes by some $16 billion during the same time period. But despite the higher taxes, the Carter Administration still opposed significant tax reduction. Said Carter: "I continue to believe that large inflationary individual income tax cuts are neither appropriate...
Though the Justice probe of unconstitutional acts implicated 68 present or former FBI agents, more than half got immunity from prosecution in exchange for their cooperation; cases against nine others were scrapped, and six received token administrative punishment. The charge against Gray, 64, was dropped because key witnesses changed their stories before trial, and damaging testimony expected in the Felt-Miller proceedings never materialized. Gray called the prosecution "malicious" and said he might sue the Government to recover his six-figure legal fees and to get compensation for the harm he has suffered. He, Felt and Miller can count...
...kind of volume appeared in New England: A Token for Children. The subtitle of America's first juvenile book was less inviting-Being an Exact Account of the Conversion, Holy and Exemplary Lives and Joyful Deaths of Several Young Children...
Modern letters are hasty and utilitarian, usually meant for one pair of eyes only. But by that token the best of them, like Woolf's, are also vibrant with immediacy, intimacy and often indiscretion ("Why," she asks, "is it so pleasant to damn one's friends?"). With her aristocratic sense of decorum she may have felt that their very privacy was what made them unpublishable. If so, she failed to reckon on this age's voracious, ransacking appetite for all that is private in a writer's life. As significant as her novels...