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Word: quos (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Africa is twice abstracted from reality, now so irrelevant to South African conditions as to be utterly absurd. If Harvard continues to argue that the University's current policy can make a difference in South Africa, its words will sound more and more like an apologia for the status quo than a realistic program for change...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Still Not Too Late | 9/12/1985 | See Source »

...Africa is twice abstracted from reality, now so irrelevant to South African conditions as to be utterly absurd. If Harvard continues to argue that the University's current policy can make a difference in South Africa, its words will sound more and more like an apologia for the status quo than a realistic program for change...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Still Not Too Late | 9/9/1985 | See Source »

...letter also charged that the Reagan Administration's current policy of "constructive engagement" creates the impression among South Africans that "the American government, despite its denunciation of apartheid, has a policy of tacit acquiescence in the status quo...

Author: By Compiled CHRISTOPHER J. georges and Thomas J. Winslow., S | Title: While You Were Away | 9/9/1985 | See Source »

...future. Just about every worker sometime in his or her lifetime will have to confront an unfair management move, whether it be during an economic revovery or a recession. But whatever the time, workers can never hope to succeed as isolated individuals voicing discontent with the status quo. Rather, success will only come through the efforts of a unified organization that serves as a formidable challenge to the institutions that decide how people will spend their working lives...

Author: By Charles C. Matthews, | Title: Whose Recovery? | 8/6/1985 | See Source »

...tacit understanding" with Israel that this would occur. An Israeli military source told the Associated Press after the Cabinet session that he expected the release of the detainees to begin within several days. At least some hiatus was necessary, he said, to prevent the appearance of a quid pro quo deal. The release schedule also depended on the security situation in southern Lebanon, he added...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: At Last, the Agony Is Over | 7/8/1985 | See Source »

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