Word: tokening
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...AIDS pandemic is a global emergency, and there is little time for token gestures when many millions of lives are at stake--and when a realistic solution has already taken too long...
...also fun watching audience members use their prominence to send not-so-subtle messages. Our own Senator John Kerry, clearly yearning to snatch any jobs in the Bush administration for token Democrats from current forerunners Zell Miller and John Breaux, not only applauded when other Democrats sat on their hands, but even gave several standing ovations. Across the aisle, Bush's cabinet tried to soften its image. John Ashcroft and Christine Todd Whitman applauded the end of racial profiling as if he hadn't spoken at Bob Jones University and she hadn't posed for pictures while smiling and frisking...
...people in my M.B.A. class have just finished a two-and-a-half day "academic immersion" program that purports to varnish us with an understanding of how business interacts with government and civil society. It is called "Society and Enterprise" (S&E), and it seems designed as a ridiculous token effort to convince students that there exists a higher calling than the profit motive...
...review will take place with allies.? Still, the U.S. will likely insist that its troop numbers be reduced?even though the U.S. accounts for less than 20% of the total peacekeeping force in the Balkans?and will move toward a burden-sharing arrangement in which the U.S. maintains a token presence on the ground but provides the military backup to deter aggression. Says Sean Sullivan, an American nato official in Kosovo: ?The line that is being formulated is that America?s ability to lead in the Balkans is not tied to its troop presence...
...does that make what he said at the time about sin and forgiveness wrong? By the same token, would it have made his spiritual advice stronger if he had been faithful to his wife? What bothers us, I guess, is what used to bother me when my father said...