Word: tokenized
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Rage of a Privileged Class, black employees throughout corporate America often must struggle against subtle glass ceilings as well as outright racial hostility. The solution to this dilemma may well be more--not less--affirmative action. Without explicit and enforced preference programs, black advancement may be stifled at token levels...
...Americans meander to the polls today, I offer a token declaration on behalf of what is now a small but growing political minority. There are no more sweeping government solutions. More importantly, there are fewer and fewer alleged solutions that are even politically viable--hence, we will be left with a United States President rightly described by The Crimson's editorial dissent ("Lesser of Two Evils," November 4) as "ideologically bankrupt." Government cannot keep pace with the dynamic forces of even a nominally free society...
QUOTE OF NOTE: "This isn't a token campaign. [Matt Salmon] isn't going to think it's token. He will have serious opposition...
Suspected by some in her own party of being a secret Rockefeller supporter--putting up a token challenge to the long-time incumbent--Burks claims that no one else wanted to run. Though Rockefeller may be "a good man," she says, he has done nothing for her poor state. Burks says she has no money and no name recognition, but wants...
Morris is a political newcomer running against a popular 14-year incumbent, but says Bob Wise has met only "token opposition." Because the Second District has given Republican presidential candidates 53% of its votes since 1980, Morris says it's time for a G.O.P. Congressman. Though he's against Big Government, Morris calls for strengthening West Virginia's aged infrastructure, implying that it might not be wise to send a Democrat to a House where the other party controls the purse strings...