Word: tokenism
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Lots of thinking and work needs to be done by the University if it is to act responsibly. And it is the black students who are applying the pressure without which at best only token progress will occur. Rights and responsibilities are a two-way street and at present the University wants to take the easy way out of avoiding its own obligations while punishing those who are taking that militant action which apparently is the only thing the University really responds...
...statement released yesterday. YAF also demanded that the University take strong action against OBU and not just "token suspensions." "In diplomatic circles, the action take by Harvard is termed 'appeasement,'" remarked Laszlo Pasztor '73, president...
Coach Ken Klug showed his reserve strength as the second and third units maintained the wide margin with only token help from the first team at the start of the second half. The score read 60-24 at half time, and at the end of the third period...
...already enacted at least 20 major pieces of consumer legislation despite strenuous efforts by most industry lobbyists to defeat them. The lobbyists have been considerably more successful in keeping enforcement of the new rules to a minimum. The favorite lobbyist tactic is to persuade Congress to provide only token funds to administer new laws. Enforcement of the 1966 Fair Packaging and Labeling Act, adopted over vigorous objections from the food industry, has been all but abandoned by the FDA: it has funds to pay only two employees to do the job. The FTC initially received enough money to inform retailers...
...none. The time is yesterday, and the location is the birthplace of democracy. The ironies are only too severe, and the tragedy only too profound. The film's end is a simple, stark report: the April 1967 coup restored the corrupt police officials and gave their homicidal accomplices token sentences. The prosecutor was forced to resign and go into exile...