Word: tokenism
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...might have come from a Reagan speech. For example: ". . . the political arrogance that would have bureaucrats run our economy and dictate our daily lives." On some of the most critical issues, like reducing the federal deficit, the document offers platitudes rather than a firm position. Bland cliches give only token attention to traditional Democratic concerns such as civil rights and equal rights for women...
...Geneva, Soviet and American negotiators are close to filling in some key numbers. The emerging deal: the Soviets would drop their insistence that any INF accord be linked to ones involving long-range strategic arms and space- based defensive weapons; INF warheads in Europe would be slashed to a "token" 100 on each side, representing a cut of more than 85% in the number of Soviet SS-20s now threatening U.S. allies...
...weeks ago, before the general student population returned to Cambridge, Harvard's alumni and elder elite celebrated the 350th at special party of their own. The powers that be left all but a few token undergraduates out of that celebration; now, they are leaving us out of the celebration that is ostensibly...
...offer would allow the U.S. to keep more bombers and the Soviets to retain more large land-based missiles than would have been possible under earlier proposals. American bargainers also indicated that they were ready to respond favorably to a Soviet proposal to reduce intermediate- range missiles to mere "token" numbers...
...celebration is whether Harvard may be flaunting yesterday's gardenias and still merits the rank of premier U.S. university. The question arises in part because of Harvard's eminence. "Harvard does tend to live in the spotlight," observes Berkeley Chancellor Ira Michael Heyman. By the same token, Harvard may be more closely scrutinized because the challenges confronting it are those confronting most major universities; how Harvard copes may point to the future direction of much of higher education. Says Christopher Fordham, chancellor of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill: "When a glitch develops, it sort of becomes...