Word: tokenism
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Later that day, Zhirinovsky made a token visit to a factory, walking through a deserted mill with endless rows of silent weaving machines. As a German television crew watched, he delivered one of his patented anti-Western tirades. "This factory stands idle because of Western interference in our affairs!" he shouted, shaking his finger directly at the German camera. "You have worked to ruin this country...
...fine- boned face. She speaks of the album's inspiration in a voice whose honeyed drawl seems to have all the Old South in it. "I met Billy Strayhorn in 1942," she says, "in Los Angeles at an Ellington show called Jump for Joy. I was MGM's token black starlet, getting no parts, and a divorced mother of two. Billy was homosexual, but I fell in love. He was the thoughtful side of Ellington, and he saw how lonely I was in Hollywood. I'd never wanted to be in show business; I'd wanted to be a schoolteacher...
There are substantive differences in the modalities of the two types of mandates. An individual mandate alleviates the problems associated with the need to switch insurance plans when one switches jobs--for example, people locked into jobs by pre-existing conditions. By the same token, it makes it harder for people to purchase insurance in groups--the firm is a natural purchasing group...
...gift, which according to Director of Athletics William J. Cleary Jr. 56, came from "generous donors," was as much a ransom as a token of generosity...
...case, the troubles of the past certainly merit more than a token search for the person who is to lead Expos into the future. And if Nancy Sommers is indeed the best person for the Director's job--as she may well be--then she should be able to win it through a legitimate national search. February...