Word: tokening
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...first budget, on which debate will begin next week, is disappointing. At $46 billion, it is 25% higher than last year's-an inflationary increase suggesting that Tokyo's crafty moneymen anticipate international pressures for another revaluation of the yen. More damaging, there is only token acknowledgment of the reordered priorities that Tanaka spoke of so feelingly before the election. What of the tax reductions that he promised would be "the largest in history"? They work out to $50 a year-enough to buy four bottles of beer a week-for the average Japanese salary earner struggling...
When the act was passed in 1965, Boston had 46 imbalanced schools. Though the School Committee was required by the RIA to submit plans to correct the imbalance, it responded with token programs. Today Boston has 65 imbalanced schools and half its 200-odd schools are either 90 per cent white or 90 per cent black. Out of frustration parents in the black community organized two voluntary small-scale programs to bus children to empty seats in nearby white schools...
...Speakership. Arbitrary and cantankerous, piercing gray eyes flickering from a ruddy, chin-whiskered face, he might expectably have been hated by his colleagues. He was not. At the end of his first term as Speaker, Republicans and Democrats alike joined to give him a loving cup as a "mute token of our affection...
Money. Not even the most optimistic college president expected Nixon to ask for all of the money authorized by the bill. They did hope for at least token funding this year, followed by more substantial sums later on. As Joseph Cosand, deputy federal commissioner for higher education, put it: "The legislation only cracks the door. The next question is what goes through it." Last week, with the 93rd Congress convening in Washington, the likely answer seemed to be: Very little...
...expected to find at the Signet a liberalized, though not radicalized attitude toward women. I found a group of token women myself included, expected to enjoy the sexist humor of a traditional stag club. I was deeply distributed by the fact that Mr. Mayer's monologue was received with hilatity and applause by those prevent, including both men and women who I am sure if asked, would say that they had found it offensive. I felt the atmosphere of dinner to be so decadent that I lost all desire to read poetry in such a situation or to collaborate with...