Word: tokenism
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...subsidies. But considering Harvard's clout with the state housing agency--a member of the Corporation served as chairman during the Dukakis administration and an attorney for Harvard's Craigie Arms veloper served as general counsel to the board for several years--this concession is little more than a token gesture. And if one wishes to compare the deal offered to tenants with the mortgage arrangement offered to Faculty members--who can receive funding for Cambridge housing at an incredible 6 percent interest rate--Harvard's position seems almost an insult to any tenants with self-respect...
...SOUTH IN SHOCK Texas, at least, made it through the cold without widespread calamity. Schools closed for much of the week, and haute Houston seemed to welcome the rare chance to preen in fur coats and fancy down parkas. Some token flakes fell on that city, and one delivery boy said excitedly: "I've only seen it once boy said excitedly: "I've only seen it once before." There were some real problems: power outages were widespread, the Rio Grande Valley's tomato and pepper crops were nearly wiped out. In El Paso, where the streets iced...
Despite the government's token gestures, and its talk of restoring some of the freedoms won by Solidarity, the regime is not prepared to relax its grip. Says one Western diplomat in Bonn: "Now they prefer that ominous Communist word normalization, and it is growing pretty clear we are returning to a Poland of 20, even 30 years...
Wyeth first sketched the White House last fall, as he sat cross-legged on the lawn. The finished painting became the Reagans' Christmas card this year. That token of good will to men is not a new phenomenon in the federal city, where trouble is the main business. Many Presidents have turned to Christmas festivities with a special fervor, to dispel for a few precious hours the gloom that usually presses in. Back in 1941, when war had come and news of defeat was the daily Washington fare, Franklin Roosevelt brought a guest to the South Portico on Christmas...
...gain courage from some depth of faith, some heroic example, some pitch of opression too horrible to bear. Always, the people quickly make the connection between American and their dead brothers and uncles and their empty tables and their dirty clothes. Usually, our government then begins ot request some token reforms from the regime in question; never are they enough to redress the social and economic problems; if they have any effect at all, it is the opposite of their intent, the weakening of the government. Sometimes, as with the Reagan administration, our government opts to back the "friendly" despot...