Word: tokenisms
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...Gloria Steinem, feminist fatale, at a press conference with black, Hispanic, Asian and native American (Indian and Alaskan) women: "I'm so glad to be here -a token...
...otherwise he faced little opposition at home. Although a skilled professional, the abrasive Fahmy is widely disliked by other Arab diplomats and has no power base in Egypt?least of all in the military, which for the moment backs Sadat's initiative. So do two of Egypt's three token opposition parties. Sadat also received the endorsement of one of his country's highest ranking Muslim leaders, Grand Sheikh Abdel Halim Mahmoud...
...nation's energy binge has gone on without significant letup. Token fuel-saving gestures have been widespread, and it may be that most Americans have actually turned back the thermostat a notch now and then or switched off a needless light. Still, through last summer America had managed to use and import more fuel by far than ever before...
...measures. In the ancient southern city of Beersheba, workers marched through the streets shouting "Begin go home!" One-day strikes closed down the postal service in Tel Aviv, the national airline El Al, Tel Aviv's airport and the major seaports of Ashdod and Haifa. Those and other token work stoppages were ordered by the 1.2 million-member Histadrut labor federation, whose Secretary-General Yeruham Meshel warned Begin: "If you have decided on a free economy, we will not agree to keep only wages under controls. We will not agree to have the wages and standard of living...
...John Vorster is shrewd as well as stubborn. Having placated Afrikaners with a show of strength, he might after a suitably triumphant electoral victory release most of the detainees and reduce the threat to the nation's press. (Last week, in a little-noticed token of liberalization, the government reversed a decision that would have excluded black and Indian students from the mostly white Natal medical school.) But blacks and their white supporters would still have the memory of a vivid lesson-that the government has the legal authority to crush dissent any time it pleases...