Word: tokenism
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...official name since 1979, slashed the number of transatlantic flights from 23 to 2 per week and laid off 900 of its 1,700 employees. Though it will continue European and domestic flights with a new Boeing 727 and four F-27 Friendships, Icelandair will abandon all but a token run over the North Atlantic. Says Sigur-dur Helgason, Icelandair's chief executive officer: "North Atlantic competition is operating under the law of the jungle...
...ours. Its return to Iran needs no negotiation. Some U.S. companies have obtained court orders for freezing Iranian assets against debts which they claim we owe them. Such claims should be considered. If we really owe them money, we will pay it. By the same token, scores of U.S. companies have received fabulous sums for equipment and services they have not delivered. Furthermore, U.S. companies have sold us industrial plants that they must, according to their contractual obligations, supply with raw materials and spare parts. We don't want anything more than we are rightfully entitled...
...discomfort, the President's men were livid. Kennedy's strained be havior caused among Carter's crew a whole new surge of anger against him. Now Carter's managers knew there was no real reconciliation, if one had ever been possible. They could expect only token support in the fall. But the fight that Strauss and Jordan had waged from their trailer had shored up the candidacy of a President whose own party obviously had little heart...
...worst terrorist attack in Western Europe since World War II, which authorities attribute to neo-Fascist extremists, demonstrably deepened public distrust of Italian officialdom. Outside the cathedral, a crowd of 200,000 jammed the Piazza Maggiore and made their feelings known. Popular President Alessandro Pertini received only token applause, while Prime Minister Francesco Cossiga and other political leaders were greeted with whistles and boos. Only seven of the victims' coffins were lined up before the main altar for the public Mass; most of the bereaved relatives had preferred to bury their dead privately as an act of protest against...
...announced, broadcast executives began protesting vigorously. A few Congressmen suggested that the action would require a revision of the copyright laws governing TV programs. Said the National Association of Broadcasters president, Vincent Wasilewski: "The FCC is permitting cable systems to use an unlimited amount of broadcast programming for token fees." Jack Valenti, president of the Motion Picture Association of America, complained that the ruling allows cable TV to "get what it wants with no permission from the owner...