Word: tokenisms
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...token of his appreciation, Slive said that he gave a tin cup to each of the people who helped to make the miracle happen. "The tin cup was a symbol of the whole operation because we literally had to beg for money," Slive said...
...department offered one female professor a lifetime post last year, but she turned it down, in part because she said she did not want to feel like the token female, Grabar says...
...token of his appreciation, Slive said that he gave a tin cup to each of the people who helped to make the miracle happen. "The tin cup was a symbol of the whole operation because we literally had to beg for money," Slive said...
...same token, Pickens said in a heavy Texas twang, he would do nothing contrary to the interests of his own stockholders to fend off a hostile takeover attempt...
...very least, the dollar's overvaluation is responsible for half the trade deficit, and some estimates put the dollar's contribution (if that is the word) considerably higher. By the same token, Rimmer de Vries, a senior vice president of Morgan Guaranty Trust Co., figures that if the dollar's exchange rate could be reduced to roughly 200 yen and 2.4 deutsch marks (vs. 221 yen and 2.7 marks last week), with comparable drops against other major currencies, the U.S. trade deficit might eventually be whacked all the way back down to $50 billion...