Under the proposal, companies would make only token payments for the first two years.
For decades that plan has required only token payments for actors when they perform -- and nothing when they rehearse.
Indeed, if we accept the DGA deal, it will give us token payments for everything we do now -- new TV shows and the rerunning of TV shows -- when bandwidth gets large enough to put those programs on our home TV sets over the Internet.
Except for a token payment of about 4 cents on the dollar approved by the court earlier this summer, those payments had been held up by the dispute.
As for the rest of the Rover Group — the part excluding Land Rover — BMW essentially gave it to a group of investors in 2000 for a token payment of 10 British pounds.
But this may not be possible as, while Mr Belhaj has offered to settle his claim for a token payment of £1, he is demanding an apology.
There is a cooling off period for the creditors of UBIG, the Lithuanian investment bank that owns 50% of HOMFCplc, who had previously agreed to transfer the shares to BDO, for a token payment of around £100,000.
Most sane people seem to agree that scanning these books and making them available in digital form is a good idea, and the settlement even provides for a token payment of up to $60 per book to go to copyright holders.
Howe's department, in which he was assisted by his "dollar-a-year men", top managers in Canadian business, loaned to the government by their companies for a token payment of one dollar a year their firms maintained them on their payrolls.
The following year, a token payment of $10 was made for a 15-acre area on Clifton Road to house the operations.
Asimov was sufficiently upset that he later obtained token payment from Wollheim so that he could assert he had been paid for his story.
