Word: tokening
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...date, yet it falls short of what other groups like the Faces or Humble Pie are doing these days. The album is good; it's just not great. Restrictions' most glaring weakness is a lack of good original material. The album is hopelessly flawed by such inane cuts as "Token Chokin" and "Alaska," with each of the members of the band having a finger in the awful...
...high price. They have approved a wage raise for coal miners nearly three times as high as Phase IIs 5.5% guideline, and most members seem likely to take a permissive, placating view of labor's "catchup" demands in the shipping, aerospace and railroad industries. By the same inflationary token, most of the increases granted by the Price Commission have been above the 2.5% overall average set for price hikes...
...Democrats fear that his nomination would lead to a fourth-party revolt by the left, thus throwing the election to the Republicans. Warns Eugene McCarthy of a potential Jackson nomination: "I might have to leave the beach [Miami] and go across the causeway to the mainland." By the same token, his views on busing and Vietnamization, among others, are close enough to Nixon's that the G.O.P. worries that he would poach on the President's constituency. Jackson agrees: "For every vote we would lose on the left we would effectively pick up two on the other side...
...only state where the two major parties were battling for the governorship, the Democratic candidate, Lieutenant Governor Wendell Ford, was the winner. The race was a partial test of President Nixon's economic policies since Ford campaigned against them. But the lone congressional contest also served as a token test. H. John Heinz III, heir to the ketchup and pickle fortune, gingerly defended Nixon's wage-price freeze in his campaign and won a 2-to-l victory. Democratic Mayor Joseph Alioto handily won re-election in San Francisco, despite the fact that he is under federal indictment...
...employ persons who can meet the demands of both the N.A.A.C.P. and Women's Lib: black businesswomen. Is this rare breed finally emerging? The answer depends on where one looks. Black businesswomen are practically nonexistent in the executive suites of major corporations. The other side of the token is that they have begun to appear in fields as varied as advertising, stockbrokerage and banking...