Word: tokenism
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...cash was intended for Nancy Reagan. She had consented to be interviewed by a Japanese monthly on the day after she moved into the White House; according to a spokeswoman for the magazine quoted in weekend press reports, an unnamed intermediary had asked for a token of "gratitude." The editors gave a $1,000 honorarium to National Security Adviser Richard Allen. Allen, who passed along the request for the interview but denies that he "arranged" it, says he thought that refusing the cash could cause offense. So he accepted it on Mrs. Reagan's behalf...
...surprisingly, Maccoby himself has done a little leading in his time. In 1954, as the president of The Crimson, he and George Abrams, the managing editor, stole the Lampoon's treasured ibis statue and presented it to a high-ranking Russian diplomat in New York as a token of goodwill and friendship on the part of all American students...
...fend off Soviet encroachment and the threats of neighbors serving as Moscow's proxies, the U.S. must provide the Saudis with adequate defenses. The sale would not shift the balance of military strength in the Middle East away from Israel, and it would provide the Saudis with a token of American reliability. Finally, the protection of the remaining moderate Arab states after the assassination of Egypt's President Anwar Sadat was essential to the interests of Israel as well as to those...
That proceeding will not begin before December. Once it is under way, the insanity defense will likely require that Hinckley's lawyers-members of the high-powered Washington firm of Williams and Connolly, home of Superlawyer Edward Bennett Williams-introduce as evidence every token of his preoccupation with Foster. A new addition to that curious lore surfaced last week, when authorities leaked a transcript of tape recordings, made by Hinckley last winter, of two telephone conversations he had with Foster. The calls, to the actress's Yale University dormitory in New Haven, were not acknowledged by her until...
GDANSK, Poland--The congress of Poland's independent labor union Solidarity yesterday threatened to stage a token nationwide strike if the communist government does not comply with their call for a price freeze...