Word: tokenisms
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...According to a new study by researchers at Iowa State University at Ames, when parents smoke, drink too much alcohol, eat too much junk food and otherwise neglect their health, their kids often do the same. By the same token, kids whose moms and dads exercise and watch their diet tend to follow that example. In two-parent households, children seem to follow parents closely along gender lines, with boys mimicking Dad's lifestyle and girls copying...
...feel strongly as a parent that we should punish those who are in fact guilty of injuring or harming children," Ogletree said. "But by the same token, I feel very strongly that no person should be unjustly convicted of something when there are serious questions about the coercive nature of the testimony from children...
Perhaps if Bochco were the "token" in question, he would feel differently. I'm not an actor, and I don't pretend to understand that craft in particular, but my guess is that just as in any other line of work, actors like to think they've been chosen for their merits, not to offset someone's guilt or cover their bases...
There is nothing token about the new outreach programs. They are not remedial but creative, even difficult. Dick and Jane have been replaced by Antigone and Pericles. Middle-school math tutorials go on for hours and progress to higher algebra. SAT drills are constant, and college essays are rewritten many times. "Its a huge difference," says U.C. Irvine student tutor Sonia Velazquez. "Kids know when it's remedial and they're being talked down to, no matter how nice you put it." But to be in the outreach program means to be special, bright, even cool. When Willard held sign...
...same token, Gogan said the Houses and the Yard residences also generated about 55 tons of paper recycling waste during move- out period--about one-third higher than normal. With recycling charged at $20 per ton, the additional waste costs the College another extra...