Word: tokenisms
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...extended campaign to prevent the deployment by the U.S. and its allies of new Pershing II and cruise missiles in Western Europe. As a result of NATO's resolve, a long and frustrating interlude in the convoluted drama of the nuclear arms race was over. But by the same token, a door had swung open on new uncertainties for the process of arms control, with attendant risks for all the vitally interested players?and the world at large...
...congressional malaise was most evident in the failure of the House to pass even a three-year tax increase of a mere $8 billion. It would have been a token move toward meeting a three-year goal, set by Congress itself last June, of raising $73 billion in new revenue. Even the larger target would have had limited impact on federal deficits that are running at around $200 billion a year. The $8 billion tax bill foundered partly because it would have placed restrictions on industrial bonds issued by states to finance major construction projects. This offended some special interests...
...rejected the House's increases in social spending by a vote of 53 to 36 when it passed its own version of the continuing resolution. Conferees from both chambers met Friday evening trying to work out a compromise. Finally, a plan was passed on Saturday that included a token $100 million increase in social funding. Congressional leaders said it would be acceptable to President Reagan. He is expected to sign the bill when he returns from Asia on Monday...
...denounced unilaterally by puppet homeland chiefs and leftist African National Congress members alike. It was a remarkable show of unity from groups that historically have been at odds. The threat of a unified 22 million Blacks in South Africa will inevitably have to be reckoned with and no token reforms can make their persistent threat of resistance vanish...
...invasion was conducted with the declared purpose of protecting the lives of 1,000 Americans who were trapped on the island after a bloody, left-wing military coup. Although six of Grenada's worried Caribbean neighbors had requested the U.S. action and supplied a token force of 400 men to the operation, many nations accused the U.S. of violating international law. Still, as the surprisingly difficult military operation continued, the Administration was able to produce evidence that Grenada was becoming a Soviet-Cuban base that threatened U.S. strategic interests in the Caribbean...