Word: quos
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Question One is approved, the State Constitution will be amended to allow cities and towns to tax property according to different "classes," with each class of property owners taxed at a different and appropriate rate. That would in effect give legal grounding to the status quo, preserving the right of homeowners to pay less in taxes than businesses...
...border war Vietnam is waging with Cambodia and China, and the friendship treaty signed Friday with the Soviet Union highlight the weakness of current U.S. policy. There is now no way short of invasion that the United States can pursue its interest in preserving the Southeast Asian status quo. Senator McGovern's suggestion tha the U.S. attack Cambodia might yet be followed by an impassioned cry to bomb the bridges on the Yalu River...
Many will see it as proof that the Kennedy School is merely an appendage of official Washington, an institution dedicated to intellectual justifications for the status quo...
...mass appeal outlook--their book went directly into paperback, their language is lively, and their ideas vividly expressed. But the end product is not a fleeting rehash of old ideas presented in a new way. Instead The North Will Rise Again offers carefully thought-out alternatives to the status quo...
...free up pension funds for social capital is just beginning. As a first volley, Rifkin and Barber's The North Will Rise Again makes a convincing case for alternative uses of pension capital. It also serves as a timely antidote to peter Drucker's 1976 apologia for the status quo, The Unseen Revolution: How Pension Fund Socialism came to America. Drucker's notion that "the United States is the first truly 'Socialist' country" is so much sheepdip. The fact that public and private pension funds "own" more than one-third of America's equity capital means nothing, as long...