Word: quos
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Reforming Zeal. When they first seized power eight months ago, the military men put such emphasis on their allegiance to King Constantine, on anti-Communism and on puritanical reforms that they appeared to be rightist defenders of the status quo. Now, after changing to mufti in order to run as civilians for office in the elections provided for in the new constitution, the ex-colonels' attitudes appear more activist. They seem not only eager to suppress leftists but also to break the power of the Greek Establishment. Under the new constitution, the monarch will no longer have power...
...again, not just good ones." And in his choicest invective, he excoriated the Republicans, particularly in the House, for making the 90th's first session un-great. "In vote after vote," he declared, "the House members of the other party lined up like wooden soldiers of the status quo." Rather than provide constructive alternatives, the Republicans sought to bury good bills "in a blanket of rhetoric beneath a wave of reaction...
...main problem with all these reports on vocational education is that they focus on the status quo and aim at limited changes. In part, this orientation is justified by the political and economic barriers to a whole new concept of vocational training. But there are strong arguments that vocational schools can never be very effective, and that cities should give all funds for job training directly to industry...
...Advisory Council is expected to discuss University complicity in the war, but Dyen said he did not think it would look into the issue "deeply." He explained, "Other moves are necessary to show Harvard students that the University is now taking the side of the status quo both implicity and explicity through its investments and government involvements...
...that time, he says, Hanoi was willing to begin talks if the U.S. would quit bombing the North. But the Administration, which had ordered a 37-day bombing pause a year earlier in the hope of achieving precisely that outcome, shifted its position and demanded a quid pro quo-namely, an end to Hanoi's infiltration of the South...