Word: tokenism
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...than those of his patrician predecessor. On East-West questions, for example, both Mitterrand and his Foreign Minister have emphatically denounced the Soviet menace in Afghanistan and Poland. In fact, the Socialists have made it clear to Marchais's Communists that they cannot hope to play even a token role in the government without endorsing that condemnation of Moscow's imperialism...
Single-parent groups have been around for years, most of them exclusively for women. A man who seeks guidance or support in those groups is likely to find himself isolated as a token dad or an antisexist target. But things are improving for single dads. There is even a new little magazine called Single Dads' Lifestyle, published in Scottsdale, Ariz., with a circulation...
...nudie show can go on in Mount Ephraim, N.J., a small (pop. 4,863) bedroom community near Camden and Philadelphia. At the Six-Thirteen Corp. "adult bookstore," customers used to be able to pop a token worth 25? into a coin-operated machine, causing a shade to roll up revealing a nude dancer doing her bumps and grinds in a glass booth. But Mount Ephraim had a zoning ordinance that in effect banned all live entertainment, while allowing such commercial activities as restaurants, retail stores and beauty salons. In 1976 the bookstore and its operators, James Schad and Toni Taylor...
...announcement fanned into flame opposition that began smoldering in early March, when it became clear that the Administration was indeed likely to include the AWACS in the arms sale. Israeli officials initially expressed little more than token opposition to the sale, but they have been convinced by the country's military leaders that AWACS in Saudi hands could lay bare all of Israel's military secrets to Arab enemies. Prime Minister Menachem Begin reacted to the sale announcement last week by giving U.S. Ambassador Samuel Lewis a memorable private tongue-lashing. Labor Party Leader Shimon Peres, Begin...
...speeders pass. In others, such as Texas and California, fast drivers greatly outnumber police available to stop them. Last week in Nevada, a state consisting almost entirely of wide open spaces, the Governor signed a bill that makes speeders caught going no more than 70 subject to only a token $5 "energy wasting" fine. (If clocked any faster, Nevadans will still be cited for speeding.) Montana has legally flouted the national limit since 1974 with a similar statute. Says newly unleashed Las Vegas Driver Dennis Gomes: "Here it's not like one of those Eastern states where the population...