Word: tokenisms
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...token suit hours' from about 7:30 to 8:30 a.m.," Paul E. Tebbets '71, a former House chair of Students for a Democratic Society, said "It made it very easy to get a date if you were from Adams House because the assumption was that you would somehow end up in the pool...
...horrid daughter, rages through the studio proclaiming with monosyllabic hillarity--"It's hip, it's hot, it's space, it's art, it's a loft." Marcus (Thomas Derrah) and Katrin Dowling (Francine Torres, Ma Ubu of "Ubu Rock"), a pair of kooky magazine publishers and the token true hipsters of the production, persuade Alex to photograph their daughter Guernica's sixth birthday party...
...Artzi-Pelossof paints a humane picture of Israel and its people. She repeatedly explains her and her friends' desire for peace, their integration into Western culture (MTV and McDonald's pop up frequently), their intimate experiences with war and the army and their respect for democracy. By the same token, she demonizes Yigal Amir and the religious fanaticism which produced him as a cancer in the midst of a generally well-meaning population: "[The assassin] was just a gun, a robot deprived of any human identity, someone who had been indoctrinated by a well-oiled system of hate, a system...
...same token, No. 1 Kellogg will desperately seek to hold the line on pricing and protect its hefty profit margins. Kellogg relies on domestic cereal sales for 42% of its revenues and 43% of its $1.26 billion in operating profits. The company said it would lower prices only on a brand-by-brand basis. For instance, this month it lowered the price of its Raisin Bran, a fiercely contested item, 15%, to $3.40 for a 20-oz. box. No. 2 General Mills was also standing pat. Big G took the first stab at price cuts two years ago, when...
...press frenzy around the kidnapping--and murder--of the son of hero aviator Charles Lindbergh was the prototype of such end-of-the-century sensations like the O.J.Simpson trial: "By various police leaks the contents of the ransom note and its identifying 'token'--a simple affair used often by criminals of the world over--was soon in the hands of most metropolitan newspapers and news services...[Later] newspapers laid themselves open to the charge of obstructing the child's return. Prime point in question was the publication of the story that the ransom had been paid and that a lookout...