By the same token, local governments hope that lifting bans on booze or fireworks will bring in big dollops of sales and excise tax.
It can mean a local coin or token, as, I imagine, in "you don't happen to have a loggerhead on you, do you?".
Shocking... Perhaps their fight song should be modified to: "Hail, hail to (VCs-that-are-not-based-in) Michigan!" One would think that even some token local VC investment by universities would be a selling point to attract some of the more innovative professors, researchers and enterprising students.
By the same token, local adaptations are unlikely to be easily scaled up on their own; changing the institutional arrangements for service providers, however, can strongly influence their performance and prospects for scaling up.
When the movie begins, Colm has just been hired as a barber at the local mental hospital, the token Catholic and one of the few members of the staff whose name is not Billy.
When BMW sold MG Rover in 2000 to the local businessmen for a token £10, the Germans agreed to hand over an extra £75m to relieve it of warranty commitments.
Upon arrival to the island, the Johnstons had to present a whale's tooth with a portion of ropes to the local chief as a token of respect.
The early colonial period saw some immigration and settlement by white colonists, who bought large swathes of territory from local chiefs, often for token payments in beads or guns.
From an archaeological perspective, the fact that the bodies were recovered in association with sumptuous items such as cumbi tunics that served specific diplomatic functions (i.e., only the emperor could give such a gift to a local ruler as a token of his good will) indicate the high social status of these sacrificial victims [ 19].
For the second-stage tagging, we extend the standard feature set used for the first-stage tagging with the following non-local features for each token, based on all identical tokens in the document: (i) most frequent tag, (ii) most frequent non-'O'tag and (iii) first tag in the document.
