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Word: quos (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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Another argument is that "the status quo is adequate." If it were, how could I cite so many obvious problems that students are powerless to address without a central voice? Why, even at schools with decision-making based on a student-faculty committee system, would there still exist an umbrella organization to maintain student unity and provide student services? One thing is certain: a student association will not make things any worse...

Author: By Michael A. Calabrese, | Title: You Can Save Harvard ... Or You Can Turn the Page | 2/14/1978 | See Source »

...advocated ideas such as student plebiscites on issues, and a town-meeting type of student government. As time passed and the philosophical battles began to hinder progress, students abandoned the more innovative proposals and the members who were dedicated to the notion that anything was better than the status-quo emerged victorious...

Author: By J. WYATT Emmerich and Eric B. Fried, S | Title: Searching For a New Student Voice | 2/3/1978 | See Source »

...moreover, Dr. Levine's bit of wisdom not only seemed to hold true for the three-quarter status quo of the Buckeye-Wolverine skirmish, but the entire college football season to date. And for that matter, the N.F.L...

Author: By Bill Scheft, | Title: You Know You're Bored | 11/22/1977 | See Source »

Long won a close race for majority whip, and when Olin Johnston died the following year, he got the desk back as well. He has not had to swap it since. But that is not to say he would not ? if the quid were worth the quo. Russell Long has raised the art of political horse trading to the highest level in living congressional memory. An unabashed wheeler-dealer, he scratches backs with a fine, silken stroke, then calls in his debts with a firm arm twist. He also repays his own lous with interest. "I gave Russell...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Nation: The Master of the Maze | 11/7/1977 | See Source »

...another, the play is about the thin line between sanity and lunacy: the inmates' presentation of the world seems less and less crazy as their play progresses. On yet another level, it is about the class struggle, and how the upper classes inevitably force a return to the status quo...

Author: By Gay Seidman, | Title: Political Asylum | 11/5/1977 | See Source »

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