Word: tokenisms
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...This," said an MIT student watching last night's women's volleyball clash between Harvard and the Engineers, "is our token good sports team...
...actions--or any actions that universities could take--would have a substantial effect on apartheid. Harvard decided on this course of action in the conviction that it should vote shares as conscientiously as possible, even if the effects are only limited." In other words, Harvard must resign itself to token gestures because of its impotence on the issue of apartheid...
...authority but his own. He twice left chained prisoners outside a state penitentiary after officials refused to accept inmates from his overcrowded Pulaski County jail. When a black federal judge dispatched an official to oversee Robinson's facilities, the sheriff ousted the appointee and called the judge a "token...
...Barry M. Lester, assistant professor of medicine at Harvard Medical school, travelled to Nicaragua and El Salvador in the June group as the token physician at the request of Womack...
...Iranian side of the border. "The Kurds have been very active and very successful recently, so the Iranian army is trying to clean them up," says General Nazar Abdul-Kerim. Indeed, it is summer, and the harvest is finished, so the Kurds have time for fighting. By the same token, the Iranians find the warm but dry weather good for conducting military operations through passes that are choked with snow and mud for more than half the year. The general will not say that his country is actively helping the Kurds in Iran, but other Iraqi commanders have acknowledged that...