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...Pentagon backed down, but that wasn't good enough. In May, Stevens and Senator Pete Domenici of New Mexico tacked a rider to a budget bill instructing the Pentagon's civilians to keep their hands off the corps. The lawmakers' defense of the status quo is no surprise. The corps spends millions of dollars every year in their states and immortalizes its congressional friends with locks and dams named for them. It is no coincidence that the corps's headquarters is not located in some corner of the Pentagon but sits at the foot of Capitol Hill. The rider...
...House voted in April to accept a system closer to the status quo over Shalala's recommendations, but the vote may be blocked by a presidential veto...
...ready to approve the controversial RU-486 abortion pill - a development that might have been welcomed by women's health advocates, if not for what they consider extreme limitations on the drug's availability and dissemination. The FDA, it seems, has given in to the allure of the status quo - granting approval without rocking the boat...
...didn't have the same expectations then that young women do today. I wasn't one of the ones who questioned," Opel says, adding that she feels she should have spoken up. "We were much too naive and accepting of the status quo...
...Unequal Status Quo...