Word: quos
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Thirdly, in our society, it is generally understood that the quid pro quo for philanthropy is immortality. Furthermore, Steiner asserts, the University considers these commemorations as bestowing gratitude, not honor. A two-volume, 1000-page book entitled The Endowment Funds of Harvard University lists thousands of funds, big or small, that were automatically named after the man with the money, good or evil...
...litanies of corruption, intimidation, and dictatorial control by Teamster bosses that can turn the Teamsters into dissidents. But at the same time, Brill entertains few illusions about the power of American Dream-style prosperity, on the order of $28,000 a year, to undercut reform and maintain the status quo...
...time in this country, but that peace and affluence brought with it a very conservative outlook. America had stemmed the tide of fascism, we had the bomb (and so did they), for the first time there was security and prosperity, and that brought with it commitment to the status quo. One didn't tamper with success, and as America had accomplished more than any other country on earth, to question what was happening in this country was to question the American Dream, to be an ingrate. Eisenhower himself said that the greatest problem facing America in the '50s was finding...
...really quite thought of it in terms of a shopping list, but one thing I continue to be grateful for is simply for possibilities, that things do not necessarily always have to be as they are. I'm grateful that God is not a God of the status quo. The remarkable thing about that episode in Plymouth in 1621 is that whites and Indians enjoyed themselves not out of great prosperity but out of a sense of having been spared-and spared for something, not from something...
From Ohio to Nebraska, voters were grumpy over high taxes and governmental waste. They cast their ballots against the status quo and turned out of office three Senators and three Governors. As a result, Republicans made some significant gains, and where Democrats managed to prevail, they tended to be conservatives...