Word: tokening
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Beckwith charged that drug companies use token research to extend their patent rights over the manufacture of particular drugs, and that they "plow back their profits into a campaign of public relations" to monopolize the drug market...
...shares are only a token amount of the 284 million shares of GMstock outstanding. The number, however, represents all GM stock known in Boston city stock funds...
...substantive issues of rebates for meals at Hillel House-the ad hoc and token decision of the Committee to grant rebates for the first and last days of Passover (April 21 and 28) is inconsistent and unfair. The food requirements of Passover that necessitate Jewish students' eating at Hillel apply equally to all eight days of the holiday, and if the system is feasible for the first and last days of Passover, it is equally feasible for the days in between. Moreover, the problems of meals for the other Jewish holidays (which usually last two or eight days...
Many unions and corporations remain closed to all but a token number of "showcase" blacks. That is one reason why unemployment is usually twice as high among blacks as among whites and climbs alarmingly to 25% for Negro teenagers. The nationwide jobless rate is 4,2%, but it is 7% for blacks. The anti-discrimination laws have certainly been circumvented in the job area. As long ago as 1941, President Roosevelt signed an executive order forbidding discrimination by defense contractors; the 1964 Civil Rights Act forbade discrimination in most jobs. Yet, despite frequent violations, no supplier has ever lost...
...their statistical value in winning Government contract awards. An entirely white company, for instance, might come under criticism from civil rights groups and then find it difficult to get new federal contracts. A recruiter for one large textile firm, interviewing business students at Atlanta University, confided, "We want a token nigger...