Word: tokening
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...plea that it was official business. Finally, he drove his own car and arrived half an hour late because he had trouble finding a parking place. Carter's limousine policy will save the Government only $12,000 a year in car-rental fees, but was a potent token of his determination to trim needless expenses and run a down-to-earth Administration. In a similar vein, the President is considering getting rid of some of the 29 presidential planes and mothballing the presidential yacht Sequoia...
...performs no service for students. A prime example of the Council's ineptitude is its handling of the referendum on the Committee on Rights and Responsibilities. At Wednesday night's meeting, the Council voted to accept the unclear result of the December 9th referendum as a mandate supporting token freshman representation...
...feeling of some RUS legislators, former and current, that the organizations is dominated by a small clique. One legislator who doesn't want to be identified, says she has not been to any meeting since the first one in the early fall where she felt "like a token...
...rebel to Bob Dylan the Pop Star, has succeeded monetarily, but the substance of his material lacks the energy and purpose it once had. Where James Taylor has succeeded and Joan Baez is attempting to do so, Dylan seems happy to rest on his rebel laurels and give token support to men such as Rubin "Hurricane" Carter (Where is Dylan now when Carter is struggling with the New Jersey legal system?... Probably basking in the sun at Zuna Beach, discussing house plans with Neil Young...
...later White said she realized she was "a token," adding that she had "gone all the way to the top" to complain that no other women had been hired...