Word: tokening
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...shouldn't take much time in the bowels of the subway system to realize that for every disease-ridden, drugcrazed bum who manages to stagger through a turnstile without depositing a token, there are three 30-year-old downtown businesspeople who enjoy showing off the hurdling skills they developed while on the track team at some elite college like, say, Harvard. I found further proof of the lack of correlation between socioeconomic condition and depravity in what I saw at the Lowell House Formal last Saturday night at the Harvard Club of Boston...
...concert became an end unto itself, and when it was over, America went home. The hunger movement was never to be heard from again, as reports of poorly managed and squandered relief resources were largely ignored. "We had our fun," America thought, "We gave our token nod to hunger. Bring on the next hot movement...
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...