Word: tokenism
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Paige actually made a token appearance in the 1948 Series, pitching two-thirds of an inning...
...feet by the threat of a massive work stoppage. The Poles want a free press, mass on television, a full ration of meat, new faces in the cabinet, and the government knows it has no choice but to give in, or face absolute, unrepressible chaos. And by the same token, the workers are disciplined enough to know they cannot ask for the sky, because, quite simply, it cannot be produced...
...Rabbitt did studies for the British Post Office showing that sounds heard through low levels of noise are difficult to recapture. "If you are listening through crackle," he says, "even if you can repeat what is said, you can't remember it as well." By the same token, elderly people with a minor hearing problem may have to concentrate so much to pick up a voice that they forget the contents of the sentence...
...superior, she will help the next generation of women," says Banks, "but she will be judged more harshly than men." As Hufstedler sees it, having a woman on the highest court has "significant symbolic importance." But she too is wary: "There can be such a thing as a token woman on the Supreme Court to avoid addressing women's issues." For most observers, the real test is whether Ronald Reagan is about to depart from his early appointments pattern by naming women to a number of other important posts. On that point, the jury is awaiting the evidence...
Irate New Yorkers are pushing past the token booths and ducking under the turnstiles. In Philadelphia, commuter trains are plastered with white cardboard notices announcing the end of service on Aug. 30. In Chicago, suburbanites are so infuriated by fare increases that they are threatening to desert their leafy outposts...