Word: tokenism
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Iran. They ordered the local Tudeh (Communist) Party to infiltrate organizations of clerical power but to avoid any actions that could arouse official suspicion. Meanwhile, Moscow provided Iran with increasing amounts of military and economic aid, though always by proxy. Indeed, to hedge their bets, the Soviets continued giving token support to Iraq, with which they have had a friendship treaty since 1960 and whose army they have largely supplied...
...those interests" that defeated the ERA the first time. Lawsuits and boycotts, she says, will be used against insurance companies and other businesses that supposedly overcharge or otherwise exploit women. Also high on the NOW hit list are lawmakers and Governors who opposed the amendment. "Women are in a token position politically," she says. NOW will "not again seriously pursue the ERA until we've made a major dent in changing the composition of Congress as well as the state legislatures" to include more women and "men who are genuinely feminists." The women's movement, vows Smeal, will...
...made to a United Nations official in Beirut last week by Yasser Arafat, chief of the Palestine Liberation Organization. Like Lebanese officials, Arafat was angered by the failure of UNIFIL, the 7,000-strong U.N. Interim Force in Lebanon, to mount more than token resistance to the Israeli invasion. Declared a Western diplomat: null credibility was a bit weak before. Now it has suffered a real blow...
...generally consider it wrong to do so. Having evaluated the implications of University investment in South Africa Bok notes that he has not changed his position since the issue erupted at Harvard Indeed, he predicts that the Corporation--which he chairs--will never vote for divestiture. By the same token. his new book reveals his similarly careful examination of the touchy issues of technology transfer--an issue that erupted here two years ago when the University was considering making a substantial investment in a planned genetic engineering company to be headed by a Harvard professor. Thanks largely...
...tourist belt, and as he soon found, "salaries are stinko in central Florida." When he did get a job as a shop foreman for an engineering firm, he earned only $7,800. Roxie took to selling Tupperware and cut back expenses, but she could send the credit companies only token monthly payments...