Word: tokenisms
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...some say the goodwill gesture doesn't go far enough. "We certainly appreciate the payment, but realistically it is a token amount when you consider the demands on the city," said City Councilor David E. Sullivan...
...same token, or at least a similar one, some of Duke's regular supporters brought an elitism to Dallas that had shades of racism. A popular parable: if a high school basketball player asked about his "boards" replies "I average eight rebounds a game," he is a better candidate to attend Louisville than Duke. Certainly Duke is an excellent school (Richard Nixon's law alma mater), but Louisville must be meeting some standard of education. Ellison became the center of the team only after the incumbent was declared academically ineligible...
...matters, simply has a strong point of view (one incidentally shared by many thousands of lawyers, politicians and judges). That he happens to hold a profoundly conservative bias apparently miffs some Harvard law professors and Kennedy School students but should not deter Dean Allison from giving Meese a small token of recognition for his years of fighting for his beliefs and for coming to speak...
...same token, although the Nicaraguan incursion last week was very real, Reagan's decision to send $20 million in emergency aid to Honduras and to permit U.S. helicopters to ferry Honduran troops was very much a part of his larger struggle to rally congressional and public support for $100 million in aid to the contras. Set back by the House a week earlier, the Administration needed a win in the Senate to keep the aid package alive and unencumbered by too many strings. What better way of showing that the contras need help than to make the most of Nicaraguan...
...token quality of the award doesn't exclude the element of distinction, Chase later said. "People have different ideas about what distinction means...