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Word: quos (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...issue of minority and women faculty recruitment, Dean Spence, Associate Dean Mas-Collel, the Faculty Council and the Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS) confirm their satisfaction with the status quo. By rejecting the establishment of Affirmative Action Departmental Representatives and the Standing Committee of Affirmative Action Representatives, FAS is telling department chairpersons to keep up the good work...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Minorities | 11/18/1989 | See Source »

Some committee members said that although many council members want to preserve the status quo of maximum choice in house assignment, they sense that council leaders are pressing for non-ordered choice out of political desperation, and a conviction that the council will gain if it appears to have won a compromise with the dean...

Author: By Madhavi Sunder, | Title: Council Sets Lottery Response | 11/8/1989 | See Source »

...article of faith. White House spokesman Marlin Fitzwater went so far as to call him "a drugstore cowboy." Moreover, it was virtually taboo to use any form of the verb "to help" in the same sentence with Gorbachev. Senate Democratic leader George Mitchell accused the Bush Administration of "status quo thinking" and exhibiting an "almost passive stance." Bush's attitude began to change when he visited Poland and Hungary in July. His hosts impressed on him that their survival, not to mention their success, depended on Gorbachev's. Bush commented afterward that he had understood the connection intellectually...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Yes, He's For Real Mikhail Gorbachev | 11/6/1989 | See Source »

...understand that no one asks for IDs when letting people into entryways and probably will not, if the status quo is maintained. This also necessarily applies to the guard system in heavily trafficked areas...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Security | 11/1/1989 | See Source »

Sober analysts and perhaps Wall Street investors may be disturbed by Washington's status quo politics, but most Americans remain in a cautious, conservative mood. They seem even more detached than usual from combat in the nation's capital and content with George Bush's bland stewardship. A TIME/CNN poll last week demonstrated that Bush and the Republican Party have prospered dramatically in this atmosphere...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Giving The Public What It Wants | 10/23/1989 | See Source »

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