Word: tokenism
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...abandon his goals of holding the fiscal 1982 budget deficit to roughly $43 billion and of balancing the budget by 1984. He did not defer or scale down the newly enacted tax cuts that go into effect next week. He refused to make more than token cuts in the defense budget. And he backed away from tinkering with the politically sensitive issue of Social Security...
...influx of electronic firms. The "public and private sectors of Lowell are now engaged in ardent embrace," he says. And so it may be, but the tax breaks that encouraged investment in Lowell meant the plant didn't go up in some other town. And, by the same token, any concessions to profit that can be made to keep industry in America means someone overseas will go without. Like many embraces more ardent than wise, this passion for industry will likely end up with someone getting screwed; if concessions must be made, they should be made cynically...
...overrun his body as he raves on. But Jagger also has scorn for the power he wields. He slurs his meanest lines with utter disregard, perhaps to illustrate how idiotic it is to hang on every syllable he and Richards decide to cram into a verse. By the same token, take a look at any picture of minimalist drummer Charlie Watts in action, and you will probably find that famous wry smile and sweatless brow. He knows what he's doing by keeping you waiting for his occasional flourishes. Though he may look a little bored, Watts understands the unique...
...Godfrey's radio show. And Tony Orlando, sans Dawn. Tony Orlando, Otis Elevator Co's favorite performer. Tony Orlando, who lives in that sapping--if profitable--wasteland reserved for performers with one smash record so monstrously huge that no one will ever forget their names, but, by the same token, so monstrously huge that they will never come close to matching it. It's a career built on the past, and thus that much safer for the audience; no surprises here. Orlando sings Sweet Gypsy Rose and Mack the Knife, says a few kind words about Tom Jones--an over...
Long lines outside token booths, and a few disgruntled passengers, greeted the new fares when they took effect in August. "Some people come up with a dollar for two tokens, and what can I do except point at the sign with the price?" one Harvard/Brattle station attendant said...