Word: tokenism
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...heartened to find that even as fierce partisans across the Internet rehashed his single comment again and again, major media outlets are hardly graced it with a single mention. They have bigger things to worry about than token politics—that pesky bank bailout, for instance, that McCain’s cavalier intervention and the political posturing of his House Republican friends may have put beyond rescue. They have better things to worry about...
...started out using token bureaucratic phrases on our disgruntled clients such as, “The rules are rules” and “There is nothing...
...McCain clearly has designs on the same inspirational message of woman breaking through the glass ceiling that limits the professional opportunities for women. McCain's own relationship with Palin is limited, which only fueled accusations on the left that the choice was little more than a token move. He first met her in February of this year, at a National Governor's Association meeting. McCain's campaign says the two leaders had a phone conversation last Sunday, and then met again in secret on Thursday at McCain's family home in Sedona, Ariz., when the candidate offered...
...biggest brothel owners, "Fat" Charlie Geerts, sold 18 buildings alongside one of Amsterdam's most picturesque canals to the semipublic property company NV Stadsgoed for $37 million. Officials immediately closed down the buildings' 51 brothel windows, and installed in 16 of them young fashion designers, who pay a token monthly rent of $220. That's just one small piece of a much more ambitious cleanup initiative. A wall map in City Hall shows a block-by-block plan that aims to halve the size of the red-light district over the next few years by shutting scores of brothels, according...
...many, especially in the U.S., it wasn't until the publication in 1998 of Philip Gourevitch's book We Wish to Inform You that Tomorrow We Will Be Killed with Our Families, that the full horror of what had happened was brought home. By the same token, the film Blood Diamond, starring Leonardo DiCaprio, brought to wider attention the misery of Sierra Leone's civil wars...