Word: tokenism
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...imagine Cambridge not having something like this process," Green said. By the same token she added that she felt the fact not many new people came out to speak today means that people are happy with the manager...
...count the number of times people have tried to dissuade me from attempting to become a lawyer. Do you, they asked, really want to spend the rest of your life fighting stereotypes about passive Asians to get your cases? Do you really want to be some law firm's token Asian? I have friends who were pre-law, but who shied away from a profession where the quiet Asian "model minority" stereotype is a decided disadvantage. I have others who simply think it is out of their reach. These are the people who benefit from affirmative action mailings...
Providing, that is, that AT&T could ignore the Constitution and the Bill of Rights. The country depicts itself as a British-style parliamentary democracy with regular elections, but in practice the ruling People's Action Party, which has held power since home rule in 1959, tolerates only token opposition, and the government owns the TV stations and indirectly controls the press...
Baker earned great admiration for assembling, along with Bush, the coalition against Saddam Hussein. A crucial component of Baker's diplomatic maneuvering was bringing Syrian dictator Hafez Asaad on board with a token force. Baker placed great importance on gaining Damascus' support to emphasize the international nature of opposition to Iraq's belligerency...
Still, Heilbrun's resignation shouldn't be taken the wrong way. Universities should not be pressured into hiring single, token women and minority faculty members as a way to appease angry professors. That was where former Professor of Law Derrick A. Bell's well intentioned crusade fell short...