Word: token
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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...request for students' views "is a token effort" which students "are not going to take seriously," Lorraine B. Pratte, a third-year law student and a member of the Law School Council, said yesterday, adding that students should be involved in evaluating the final candidates...
...must. As he admits, The Herald is inappropriate for its job as the country's watchdog because it reaches only English-speaking Argentines, but by that token, the paper does not present as much of a threat to the Argentinian government. While The Herald is unable to convey news of violence and chaos to its native population, it can record the anarchy of terror ripping the South American nation. He occupies a tenuous position of privilege, but has a foothold nevertheless, and Cox and his staff feel they must take advantage of this opportunity to report...
...official name since 1979, slashed the number of transatlantic flights from 23 to 2 per week and laid off 900 of its 1,700 employees. Though it will continue European and domestic flights with a new Boeing 727 and four F-27 Friendships, Icelandair will abandon all but a token run over the North Atlantic. Says Sigur-dur Helgason, Icelandair's chief executive officer: "North Atlantic competition is operating under the law of the jungle...
...ours. Its return to Iran needs no negotiation. Some U.S. companies have obtained court orders for freezing Iranian assets against debts which they claim we owe them. Such claims should be considered. If we really owe them money, we will pay it. By the same token, scores of U.S. companies have received fabulous sums for equipment and services they have not delivered. Furthermore, U.S. companies have sold us industrial plants that they must, according to their contractual obligations, supply with raw materials and spare parts. We don't want anything more than we are rightfully entitled...
...discomfort, the President's men were livid. Kennedy's strained be havior caused among Carter's crew a whole new surge of anger against him. Now Carter's managers knew there was no real reconciliation, if one had ever been possible. They could expect only token support in the fall. But the fight that Strauss and Jordan had waged from their trailer had shored up the candidacy of a President whose own party obviously had little heart...