Word: tokenized
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...proposal was given scant chance of passage even by its Democratic backers, and less by Administration officials, who voiced only token opposition. It blooped through Congress largely because none of its opponents bothered to stop...
...Perry, who directed David and Lisa, have made Diary of a Mad Housewife into a good deal more than a mere fleshed-out case study for advocates of Women's Liberation. Carrie Snodgrass, as the harassed housewife nagged to distraction by her socially-climbing husband (Richard Benjamin), makes a token rebellion in her affair with a semi-famous writer who turns out to be equally odious. They are horrible not only because they are men but because they are horrible. Snodgrass is sensitive and put-upon because she is telling the story, but even in objective terms she is clearly...
String of Buoys. The dimensions of the Soviet buildup in the Indian Ocean also worry Australia and Great Britain. In light of the Tory government's decision to retain a token military force to help defend Singapore and Malaysia, there is uneasiness in London about supplying that force via a body of water dominated by the Russians. Heath has argued for resuming South African arms sales on the ground that the Soviets' Indian Ocean presence makes the Simons-town naval base more important than ever; but the plan has run into such opposition from black African Commonwealth members...
Zero Population Growth. The angel of popular culture today is to his forebears what the last American buffalo, ailing in some future zoo, will be to the mighty herds that roamed the West: a token, a remnant of a spiritual breed that will never return. In the 13th century, Doctor of the Church Albertus Magnus held that there were nine choirs of angels, "each choir at 6,666 legions, and each legion at 6,666 angels." That made 399,920,004, all fluttering and hymning in orbit around the throne of God. Of these, one-third were flung down with...
...increase the budget only if Congress agrees, and he may well run into resistance from Capitol Hill's fiscal conservatives, as well as from Democratic liberals who are not at all eager to help his re-election drive. One possibility is that Nixon will offer only token opposition to spending bills that he dislikes, and allow the budget to tumble $15 billion or $20 billion into...