Word: quos
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...rest of the world, the ceasefire lines that marked the end of the 1967 Arab-Israeli war are only temporary frontiers. But as the political stalemate continues, the Israelis are quietly hardening the lines and forging their own solution out of the status quo. So far, they have formally annexed only Arab Jerusalem, but in accordance with a plan proposed by Deputy Premier Yigal Alton and secretly approved by the Cabinet four weeks ago (TIME, Feb. 7), they are settling the Golan Heights, cutting roads for new villages in the Sinai, and establishing a string of fortified settlements overlooking...
What will come after? Nobody knows. What the prevalence of "art for art's sake" creations mainly shows is that artists feel compelled to satirize the status quo. In this sense, the stage seems curiously akin to 1953. That was the year when Robert Rauschenberg set the stage for pop with his own contribution to the "art for art's sake" genre: erasing an Abstract Expressionist drawing by Willem de Kooning...
...Hong Kong Island, the two centers of business and tourism that were ceded to Britain in perpetuity by China's emperors. Legalities aside, Red China could overrun Hong Kong in 24 hours whenever it wished. What permits business optimism is the belief that Peking finds the status quo alluring. Red China earns nearly half of its foreign exchange-upwards of $500 million a year in hard currency-by trading with and through the crown colony. Some $100 million of that amount comes in remittances from overseas Chinese that flow through the colony's banks; Peking owns or controls...
...think these problems can be resolved by the faculty working alone." Berkson emphasized. The large majority of Harvard Law professors are graduates of the school. Berkson charged that they thus "have a tremendous institutional bias in favor of the status quo, having succeeded very well in it." "It might be tough to convince them of the present system's problems," he added...
...academic community. As universities persist in offering courses which are irrelevant, offensive and even intolerable, students justly will be stepping up their demands for change and for meaningful student participation to guarantee implementation of necessary change. Those who argue for Faculty hierarchical; prerogatives merely are defending the status quo, not academic freedom...