Word: tokenism
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...took several student marches, and an angry open meeting with the Advisory Committee on Shareholder Responsibility (ACSR), to force the Corporation to back down. The core of Bok's 1978 defense lay in the "Sullivan Principles" for corporate behavior in South Africa. Bok pointed to this set of token reforms, like integrated washrooms, as evidence that corporations can play a progressive role in South Africa. Five years later, the Corporation still invests in at least seven companies which have not even signed the Sullivan Principles. The Corporation has refused to divest from Carnation Corporation, a Sullivan signatory which has been...
Whatever level of MX deployment is recommended by the Scowcroft Commission should be strategically meaningful beyond a mere token deployment. At the same time, the MX, like the new single-warhead missile, should be an organic part of an arms-control strategy. To this end, we should offer to postpone MX deployment if the Soviets agree to destroy MIRVed null (their heavy missiles) over three years starting in 1986, and to abandon MX altogether once the SS-18s are dismantled...
...Church, anxious to get inside for the night. One wiry man repeatedly approaches passersby, sets down his two large sacks and says, "My name's Billy. Could you help me get home and get some dinner?" After gaining admittance to the shelter, Billy receives an offer for a subway token, but he chooses to spend the night...
...their 49 divisions from Mongolia and the shared border; they withdraw from Afghanistan; and they end their support of Viet Nam's occupation of Kampuchea. Lately, the Chinese have hinted that they would be willing to settle for less. One possibility, which the Soviets may accept, is a token reduction of Soviet troops along the border. Agreement on that issue alone, Chinese diplomats now say, would be enough to allow the two countries to conduct serious negotiations on trade, thus sidestepping the difficult issues of Afghanistan and Kampuchea...
...fact, Connecticut's new tokens were manufactured by the same firm that produces New York's. But city subway officials and Connecticut transportation officials failed to confer in advance on the token plans. With each side soon blaming the other for the foul-up, New York Mayor Ed Koch launched a new crackdown on fare cheating, Connecticut-style. Some operators of video-game parlors that employ special tokens have discovered another illegal use for the Connecticut tokens: Pac-Man players are getting a quarter's worth of action...