Word: quos
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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This ambivalence means that the November elections are likely to produce what Republican Political Analyst Kevin Phillips calls a "transitional electorate" without a strong commitment either to the status quo or to change. When the TIME survey asked respondents how they would vote "if the election were held right now," 37% chose the Democrats and 33% the Republicans. A large number, 26%, were undecided. Independent voters leaned to the Republican candidates, 31% to 26%, with 39% undecided...
...stand old-liners who teach law as a pure discipline, without value colorations. Attacking them is a rebel cadre under the banner of Critical Legal Studies, a left-leaning doctrine that claims the law is no impartial instrument but serves principally, and in partisan fashion, to maintain the status quo in society. Beneath the spoken issues lies a suspicion that the law school may have become too inbred and is not as concerned with legal ethics as it should...
...question, the 1980s have seen great change in the People's Republic of China, regarding social and economic progress. But the Burns affair is a reminder that China's progress should continue to be evaluated in terms of the status quo in China eight years ago. And not in Western terms, as is often mistakenly done...
When the cause is so great, it may seem foolish to some to bring up such grievances. But I believe that silence is acceptance, and I am not prepared to silently accept the status quo at the shantytown. As things stand, it is nothing less than a farce to call the shanties an "open university" and the standards of its membership fair behavior for a community. What the Open University lacks is dedication to its stated principles and a clear view of its objectives. What it requires is a personal commitment to uphold the rights of all and to protect...
Female emancipation may be the one great achievement of the Baby Boomers. All sorts of kooky notions on the protest generation's agenda, from communal living to extolling "mind-expanding" drug use, have mercifully become memories. But women's liberation, minus its early stridency, has become the status quo. "We were the pioneers," says Reich, "to take seriously the notion that women are equal. That's the social change that's lasted." In TIME's poll of 30- to 40-year-olds, the legacy of the late '60s and '70s that earns the highest approval rating (82%) is simply "changes...