Word: tokening
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...does have one problem though. He's running in Mayor Vellucci's home area of East Cambridge, and it is doubtful that he will pick up any more than a few token number-one votes. And he really hasn't paid a great deal of attention to the student vote, small though that may be. He is in no way a serious contender but this year's campaign could pave the way for a successful showing two years from...
...people of both East and West Pakistan responded to the increasingly totalitarian nature of their government and the increasing income disparities in their country with large-scale urban rioting in 1968-69 that forced President Ayub Khan to resign. A token reshuffling of generals produced a new strongman, Yahya Khan, who continued the same repressive civil and economic policies. As the elite in West Pakistan consolidated its control, East Pakistan increasingly approximated a colony of the West, supplying raw materials to Western industry and serving as a market for the finished products. Political domination of the East by the Western...
Probably the Administration hopes to restore broken bonds with the universities: maybe it thinks it can convert some of its critics and please its supporters by allowing them a token role in policy formation. Some of these reports are undoubtedly bureaucratic waste destined to line file cabinets. The Columbia study in particular, though, may be used to help gain Congressional funds for a multilateral agency to prop up a Thieu-ish regime. Like the Smithies and Benoit reports, it is a minor scenario for the tragicomedy of Vietnamization...
...obviously healthy sex life. There is no sign of exactly what Leonard has in mind, but on Women's Lib terms, Shirley's consciousness is already raised several levels above that of CBS's Doris Day, who this season has just been promoted from secretary to token female reporter on her San Francisco magazine...
Murray said she does not wish to be a token woman on the Supreme Court. "Just as Associate Justice Thurgood Marshall has a special insight into the racial experience, a woman justice would have native insight into the problems of women," she said...