Word: quos
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Boston is a city in flux. Many of the neighborhoods are changing, as outsiders sweep in, disrupting the status quo that has characterized most of Boston's history, and the racial tensions that currently exist are more a product of resistance to change rather than prejudice directed specifically at Blacks...
...ites remain determined that their recent military victories be reflected in political gains. "Even the defense portfolio was denied us," said Ghassan Siblini, one of Berri's top aides. "What Karami is offering is the status quo, and that is not what we have been fighting for at such a high cost in terms of lives and destruction." Berri demanded that Karami address the Shi'ites' most urgent concerns by establishing two new ministries, one for managing reconstruction and the other for overseeing Israeli-controlled southern Lebanon. "Berri cannot ignore the twin pillars...
...sometimes sharp reaction to his candidacy. Whenever the prospect of change occurs, there is always the inflamed and exaggerated response by the keepers of the gate of the status quo. Many of them are still in shock at the success of this campaign. They know that the course of American politics is changing. They don't know quite where we'll go. So in their panic, they lash out and attack. Every time there is a breakthrough, the politics of paranoia takes over...
Parker: My view would be that there are, in law, bases for all sorts of arguments critical of the status quo and of the people whom you're referring to, Charles. And I think that insufficient resources have been allocated to those who would make arguments critical of the status quo, but the resources for making those arguments are there in the law. I'm not as vulgar a Marxist as you are, Charles. That's what I'm trying to say. I don't believe the law is strictly the instrument of the ruling class...
...must do whatever it could to bring the crisis to a negotiated solution, but if this was not possible, it must support Britain and the rule of law. To our ambassador in Buenos Aires, Galtieri had suggested that Washington should acquiesce in the invasion as a quid pro quo for Argentine support for the U.S. in the hemisphere. Galtieri never really understood that the U.S., as a nation of laws, could not have one rule on the use of force for its friends and another for the Soviet Union and its proxies. In this view, I enjoyed the enthusiastic...