Word: quos
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Communism, neutralism seems unlikely to appeal to the aging hierarchy in Peking, which seems more than ever convinced that it needs more rather than less militancy to sustain its own revolutionary mystique at home. In any case, diplomacy is based on the practical possibility of a quid pro quo. The quid in Fulbright's proposal is that the U.S. would eventually pull out its troops. The quo? Peking can offer none, in a direct sense, since it has no Chinese troops stationed in Southeast Asia and thus can claim that it has no divisions to withdraw...
...What we want to do now is try to hold the status quo on the patron age refund and not put much money into expansion," Morrill explained. Even so, he admitted, there may have to be serious consideration this March of a one per cent cut in the present refund rate of eight per cent on charge purchases and ten per cent on cash...
Shunning the status quo, Dean Sizer insists that Harvard should be concerned with "what schools should be like in the future, and to train people for service in them now." A school of education, he believes, must seek a balance between "the wisdom gained from detachment and that from commitment." The search for the proper mix between necessary involvement in social reform and a more aloof and thoughtful attitude toward education is nothing new, in Sizer's view, but the challenge for Harvard is that "no institution has so far achieved...
...that end, the President hopes to hustle both men off to the isolated acres of the LBJ Ranch. There, without retinues of advisers, Johnson hopes to apply his inimitable techniques of suasion to extract from his visitors a reasonable quid pro quo...
...fear that the U.S. will invade to protect the status quo inhibits the rise of governments which are committed to reforms. Yet such reforms are essential to economic and social development, the central aim of the Alliance for Progress. While the U.S. continues to pour aid and investment into the Alliance, its policy of intervention forestalls the measures necessary for Progress...