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...Party, is divided over nearly every major decision. Craven leaders, afraid to offend any large minority, conduct government by near paralysis. The present policy on the occupied territories rests on the hope that the civil order will eventually be restored and that the territories will return to the ''status quo,'' the endlessly uneasy but preferred state of affairs in a nation whose front door opens onto the abyss. For 21 years, Israel's leaders have been telling the people that they were ''practically at peace.'' Why rush to negotiate some traumatizing political compromise? Now Shamir's government says Israel cannot...
...alliance with the Brazilian Democratic Movement Party (PMDB), the country's biggest party but one with no clear ideology beyond commanding influence and retaining power. "Lula is going to need the votes of the PMDB to pass his reform projects but the PMDB is the party of the status quo and an alliance with them is going to make any reforms difficult," said Joao Augusto de Castro Neves, a political scientist at the Brazilian Institute of Political Studies. "I am not optimistic that much is going to change...
...asked a Lebanese Shi'a politician what Hizballah intends to do with its newfound power. "Nothing," he said. "Hizballah is already the de facto Lebanese government. It's only a matter of time before the government falls, Hizballah fills its shoes, and becomes the defender of the status quo...
...company's management." Other observers were appalled at the buyout. GM officials got rid of Perot, contended Mary Anne Devanna, director of research at the Columbia Business School Management Institute, "to protect their own hides. Their careers, big bonuses and fancy perks all depend on maintaining the status quo. GM is in trouble, and sooner or later it will have to find a Ross Perot to dig itself out of its problems." Keith Grain, publisher of the weekly Automotive News, seemed disappointed at the turn of events. Said he: "It's a sad day for GM. Ross Perot...
...worked so hard to launch and sustain. I cannot take my eyes off the soles of your shoes. Worn out and tired, your shoes are a mute response to all those ultranationalists who accused you of being in the pay of the Armenian diaspora to disrupt the status quo in Turkey...