Word: tokenism
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...split up; all of them would go to the highest single bidder. A lawyer for the Citizens State Bank bid $89,000 for everything, the only bid offered. (The rule was designed to stymie a common practice at other forced sales in which local farmers would bid only token sums for many items and then hand them back to their former owners.) Said the sheriff: "Going once, going twice. Sold...
...through its admissions and curriculum, it cannot cross the line into the regions of individual choice and preference to force-feed diverse experiences on its students. Like a well thought-out buffet, there should be something for everyone but not everyone has to taste everything. And, by the same token, the College cannot admit people in part because they are musicians and athletes and not expect these characteristics to spill over into their social life and choice of friends...
Some business executives are skeptical. They believe that entrepreneurship cannot exist inside a large company on more than a token basis. Harold Geneen, the builder of ITT, contends in his 1984 book, Managing, that "entrepreneurism is the very antithesis of large corporations." Shareholders, he says, will never stand for the risks involved...
...back," said a Pentagon source. What worried top Reagan aides was that other Cabinet members might get so frustrated by Weinberger's intransigence that they would ask that their own cuts be reconsidered. Many feel that his use of questionable number juggling to come up with only token "savings" discredits the entire budget process. Their only hope, they say, is to convince the President, who seemed to be leaning toward Weinberger's position, that the Pentagon demands are clearly beyond what is required for the nation's military security. Before the President takes his budget battle...
...disaster. In addition, the company, which had annual profits of $79 million last year on sales of $9 billion, offered $1 million to a relief fund. But state officials were by no means satisfied. Said Chief Minister Singh when offered the money: "There is no question of accepting this token gesture...