Word: tokenisms
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...School Council, told The Crimson at the time that students should be involved in evaluating the final candidates once the selection pool had been narrowed down and that Bok’s inclusion of students in the search process amounted to little more than “a token effort...
...would be the groom’s father at her daughter’s wedding.ALL BUSINESS ABOUT FAMILYAfter she became a coveted commodity with corporate boards, Whitman says she told her recruiters: “Let’s not kid ourselves, I know I’m a token, but don’t expect me to be just a token.” Crisp and clear on the phone, in no way revealing her 71 years, Whitman has always maintained a realistic mentality. “I just went ahead and did my thing, and never went...
...describes himself as a junk dealer ("I buy troubled stuff and turn it around," he says), has a history of contrarian investments. When he purchased 807 miles of nationally owned railway stock from the Canadian government for $11 million in 1997, he also picked up, for the token sum of roughly $8, the port of Churchill, Manitoba...
After five days of protests against the reelection of Alexander Lukashenko as President of Belarus, police early Friday morning arrested hundreds in an improvised tent camp in downtown Minsk, installed there as a token of popular protest against an election widely described as fraudulent and unrecognized by the U.S. TIME's Yuri Zarakhovich discussed the overnight crackdown in a phone interview with Professor Alexander Kozulin, a presidential candidate from the opposition Social-Democratic Hramada party and one of the two top opposition leaders in Belarus...
...measures are often used by the ruling parties as an excuse to crack down on opponents and independent civil organizations, according to these groups. "Our members are regularly thrown in jail for seven or eight months at a time without cause," said Hadi Ali, the Minister of Justice, the token KIU minister in the KDP-dominated Erbil administration. "When they get out I tell them that they are lucky to be alive and to keep quiet...