Word: token
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...letter to President Pusey, Miss Wynn proposed that a "token group" of Cliffie officers and marshals be allowed to join the line of march. But she got no more than her predecessor did -- permission to march in the Harvard alumni procession Thursday afternoon...
...brink of war, does not want to gamble his winnings by actually leading them to war. He is reportedly ready to bargain with Israel for the lifting of his blockade of the Gulf of Aqaba. His price: "acceptable" Israeli compensation to the 1.3 million Palestine refugees, plus a token "border adjustment" that would return a small sliver of Israeli desert to Arab sovereignty. The border adjustment is a question of repairing Arab honor and is relatively unimportant?though Israel may be reluctant to cede even a splinter of its land. The real key to an eventual political accommodation?after...
Evasion & Delay. Before the 14-hour session ended at 1:40 a.m.-with passage of the $3.4 billion authorization bill, 294 to 122-the Republican leadership suffered still further humiliation. Ford made a token effort to have the bill sent back to committee, only to see 46 Republicans desert him. On the final vote for passage, 99 defected...
...President Johnson had requested $662 million for his showcase exercise in creative federalism, which is aimed at encouraging cities to draw up their own plans for the rehabilitation of neighborhoods. The Appropriations Committee excised nearly two-thirds, leaving only $237 million. A motion to eliminate all funds except a token $12 million for planning was narrowly defeated...
...Administration has so far shied away from an ardent defense of the guidelines, and has instead made token efforts to placate the Southerners. It has transferred authority for enforcement of the guidelines from the office of Education Commissioner Harold Howe to the office of Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare John Gardner. And Gardner has announced that compliance with the guidelines will be supervised by Southerners rather than the Northerners that local school officials found intolerably conscientious...