Word: tokenism
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...same token, supper takes us touncharted gastronomic territory. When I thinkabout the food I miss from home; I recall imagesof my daily suppers at Aunt Bessie's house. Ifonly in my mind, I can see the hot cornbread or"mixed" bread, rice and gravy, greens of all kinds(usually collard, mustard or turnip), friedchicken and, yes, chitlins...
...although some might object thatAfrican-Americans in high positions are "tokens,"Kennedy said, "the head of the armed forces of theUnited States [Gen. Colin Powell] is not a token...
...news of that exchange circulated, the conservative faithful in Houston were pummeling moderates who had sought to soften the party's rigid pro-life platform position. The pro-choice faction had been led to believe that they would get at least a token concession, a sign the party would lean at least a little toward the "big tent" concept its late chairman, Lee Atwater, had formulated. But the platform drafters not only flattened the pro-choice faction; they also took a hard line against gay rights, gave short shrift to environmentalists and called for an indefinite moratorium on new business...
Even more discouraging to Republicans of varying hues is Bush's surrender to the religious right on issues such as abortion, gay rights and pornography. Pro-choice advocates seeking even token concessions came away empty-handed. But they did get some support from yesteryear's conservative icon Barry Goldwater. The former Senator sent a letter from Arizona warning that the "convention will go down in shambles, as will the election," if the party clings to its adamant stand against abortion. Because Bush's most solid constituency now is the religious right, he cannot risk alienating it. Yet one of Bush...
...cannot be restricted to what U.N. Secretary-General Boutros Boutros-Ghali crudely referred to as a "rich man's war." It logically implies that U.N. intervention in Eastern Europe should be matched by similar action in other catastrophic conflicts: in Somalia, Ethiopia, Burundi, Burma and elsewhere. By the same token, this new world cannot be managed unilaterally by the U.S. but must instead work from the consent of all major powers around the globe. It would have to be supported by their armies and their treasuries...