Word: tokenism
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Drake says that having ethnic minoritiesdistributed evenly across the houses just for thesake of diversity is a token move...
When Lieut. Kara Hultgreen was killed last October while flying, many anonymous claims were made that she had not been qualified to pilot the F-14 and that she had been placed as a token pilot in order to improve the image of the navy after the Tailhook scandal. These claims gained such momentum that they spurred her mother to release her training records after her death. The record showed that Lieut. Hultgreen had been third in her F-14 piloting class and above average as a pilot. Soon afterwards the crash was labeled a mechanical failure. All the claims...
...have a clue. Here it's an American scholar researching the life of consumptive English poet Flora Crewe-in particular, whether Flora posed nude for an artist named Nirad Das while traveling in India for her health some 60 years ago, and if so, whether the portrait was the token of a love affair...
...representative management is oblique. "Progressive" employers cite the advantages of minority representation in a world where the bases of power growincreasingly outside the domain of the white male. One chief executive described walking into a meeting with "an all-white male team" as "a tiebreaker negative." This view of token representation, where an employee's primary purpose and merit is her gender or race, is not progress. It feels like a form of exploitation...
Trader Nicholas Leeson's stock gamble cost Baring Brothers & Co. $1.46 billion, $460 million more than previously estimated, the insolvent bank said today, as the Dutch ING Group agreed to take over Baring for a token one pound, or $1.65. Leeson, now in a German prison, is fighting extradition to Singapore, where he stands accused of forging a Wall Street executive's name on a document used as collateral for a loan to Baring. Says TIME London bureau chief Barry Hillenbrand: "A lot of people doubt that Leeson was this lone cowboy who just blew this bomb up inside, with...