Word: tokenism
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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McDonald wanted a token wage hike plus a many-fringed package to soften layoffs and spread the work: bigger unemployment benefits, longer vacations, higher pensions, and 13-week sabbaticals for 20-year veterans. Management estimated that this would add up to 14? or 15? an hour, or a boost in labor costs of at least 3.5%-somewhat more than the 3.1% annual rise in U.S. industrial productivity. The steel companies countered with a 5? to 7? proposal, or about 1.5%¶somewhat less than the steel industry's annual productivity gain of about...
...most important consequence of this bill. . .would be the intensified pressure on students for political conformity. By that token, the measure would undoubtedly discourage some exceptionally independent individuals from undertaking careers in science," the letter declares...
...each prescription, which is expected to cover a month's supply of 20 pills, a woman under NHS will pay a token charge of 2 shillings (28?). The government will pay the rest, estimated at $2.08 a month. Health Minister Enoch Powell told Commons that he hoped doctors would prescribe the pills only when they had good reason to believe that a woman should avoid pregnancy. But in effect he conceded defeat in advance: "It is not for me to indicate to doctors what they should decide, for medical reasons, to prescribe for their patients." He therefore left...
Minister Malcolm emphasized, however, that repentance will be extremely difficult. The white man cannot "come up and offer some 'token integration' in return for the blood and sweat of 300 years of black slavery. It is not for the white man to decide the punishment or recompense...
...locust years, 1934 and 1935, that the finger of criticism should be pointed." For despite Chamberlain's "most valiant" championship of rearmament in the mid-'30's, so little was done that by September 1938. Britain was almost completely defenseless against air attack, had only a token quantity of modern antiaircraft guns and one operational Spitfire squadron. "After Munich," says Iain Macleod, "the last strong hopes of peace were not allowed to hold back our accelerating preparations against...