Word: tokenisms
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...ACSR was created to bolster the Corporation's image of concern for critical opinion. But Harvard must understand that maintaining that image depends upon being honest, and not making token gestures to the community. It must open up the ACSR to popular election and deal head-to-head with popular views...
Police records list 23 reported larcenies on University grounds between March 27 and April 4. The total value of property reported token was estimated...
...than anything else needs a heavy dose of the free market. If the deficit is ever to be tamed, Washington will have to say no to other groups, some deserving, others not. But it is the President's intentions that are in doubt. This week's veto was a token gesture of fiscal sobriety, another in a long series of instances where the President has found a specific and relatively weak group to bear the burden of his deficit. It's not that we object to his efforts to sort out government finances, it's that he's pursuing...
...know about South. Unlike the American South, Where racism existed in opposition to established constitutional principles, the white Afrikaaner policies of apartheid are part of an entire civil theology and political culture of race separation wherein the hereditary Afrikaaners often refer to themselves as "The White Tribe." Even the token reforms undertaken by the Botha government have drawn vehement criticism within the Nationalist government and have prompted a rightward shift in much of the Afrolaamer electorate. Far from warming to reforms in apartheid, white South Africa threatens a violent backlash...
...split up; all of them would go to the highest single bidder. A lawyer for the Citizens State Bank bid $89,000 for everything, the only bid offered. (The rule was designed to stymie a common practice at other forced sales in which local farmers would bid only token sums for many items and then hand them back to their former owners.) Said the sheriff: "Going once, going twice. Sold...