Word: tokening
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...Bangkok called on its near neighbors for help, the combined five-nation ASEAN (Association of Southeast Asian Nations) forces would be paper tigers in the face of Hanoi's overwhelming superiority in experience and firepower. Since Malaysia, Indonesia, the Philippines and Singapore would be capable of sending only token military aid to Thailand, that country's untried forces would be quickly subdued...
...problem is what the English referred to as gentrification: the process by which affluent couples take over and rehabilitate rundown districts, leaving no place for their former low-rent occupants to go. This has not been allowed to happen in Savannah and other cities where minority groups, assisted by token loans, have been able to rehabilitate their own neighborhoods with sweat equity. Such programs benefit not only minorities but the cities as well...
...your American Scene, a man sees six teen-age blacks sweeping toward him like a pack of wolves. But when you mention the two token-booth operators in Queens who were burned to death, you say some teen-agers did it. Were they white teenagers, looking like a pack of wild dogs? Tell it like it is. Don't just yell black; yell white...
...Powell had just called Kennedy's office himself to check the exact words. Yes, the press secretary told the President, Kennedy had said the oil lobby intimidated Carter into "throwing in the towel" on decontrol without even "entering the ring." Yes, Kennedy had accused Carter of submitting a token windfall profits tax that was no more than a "transparent fig leaf over vast new corporate profits...
...York's streets. Nobody is sure exactly how many people have been robbed and beaten in recent months by teen-age gangs, often while fellow passengers and even train conductors did nothing. Already this year there have been eight subway murders. On one particularly bad night two token-booth operators in Queens were burned to death after some teen-agers poured gasoline through the change window and set it afire...