Word: tokenism
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...major role in the department. Marglin taught his few graduate and undergraduate courses but presented nothing to the masses in Economics 10 Prior to the arrival of Jeff Wolcowitz, the course head section leader. Ec 10 organizers had approached Marglin out of sheer courtesy to give a token radical lecture Marglin says of their offers. "I think the preferred time was January 17th, midnight...
...against the best tennis team in the country. Three out of the six contests escalated to three-set showdowns when most experts expected Harvard which earned a berth in the tourney because if nabbed a take in the comparably weak Eastern Intercollegiate Tennis Association division to make only a token appearance against UCLA...
...same token, the GSA could have simply circulated is petition criticizing Pattullo's suggestion and called for Rosovsky to reitcrate that Harvard has no intention of following his advice. That step would not discourage Pattullo and fellow faculty members from speaking their minds, at the same time, it would have shown Pattullo and others with administrative responsibilities that their personal views towards putting social pressure on homosexuals should not in any way affect their University duties. An investigation of the practices of the Center for Behavioral Sciences should hinge not on the statements of a single administrator, but on some...
William Cavellini, a member of the Rent Control Task Force and of the Simplex Steering Committee, said that the tenants want more than the "token" unanimous vote supporting rent control given recently by the city council...
...Communist Party (P.C.I.). Since the collapse of the "historic compromise," a power-sharing agreement with the ruling Christian Democrats, the Communists have sought to win votes by putting distance between themselves and the Soviet Union. Thus the P.C.I, has criticized the deployment of Soviet SS-20s and expressed only token opposition to the installation of U.S. missiles in Italy...