Word: quos
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Arts and Sciences for teaching support. Law, Business and--worst of all--Kennedy school students all wind up responsible for the education of scores of undergrads, despite their lack of training in the fields they wind up teaching. And so the argument advanced by defenders of the status-quo--that section leaders are the distinguished scholars of the future--falls apart, a disingenuous defense of an unacceptable situation...
...failure of masters to implement the report is indicative of the difficulty administrators and students face in affecting the non-intellectual status quo that permeates house life, CCL members said...
...denied the results of a recent USA Today poll that found a majority of Americans, both Democrats and Republicans, believe the budget deficit is the single most pressing issue. "That is status quo thinking. [The result of the poll] is just not correct," du Pont said...
...state until the appearance of the Messiah. In order to overcome such objections to nationhood, David Ben-Gurion, the country's political founder, shaped an agreement with Jewish religious leaders in 1947 that attempted to define the role of religion in Israeli life. That declaration, known as the "status quo," made several key concessions to religious authorities. Among them was a pledge that the traditional Friday- evening-to-Saturday-evening Jewish Sabbath would be Israel's official day of rest. Ever since then, Israelis have been quarreling over the practical implications of the status quo. With the same single-minded...
Ultimately, of course, the Israelis themselves will have to resolve the dilemmas rooted in the nation's dual political and religious identity. One mechanism for doing this, suggests Tel Aviv University's Reichman, would be to replace the vague 1947 status quo with a written constitution, which Israel still lacks. Reichman, in fact, heads an independent university group that has drafted a model constitution based on the twin principles of free choice and protection for Israel's Jewish character. Says Reichman: "It is out of the question that individual freedom should be transgressed...