Word: quos
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...think it is necessarily the case that each racial or social or economic group in the United States is going to be like each other group. That I think is wrong, and that I think, is another mistake of affirmative action. Affirmative action freezes the status quo: it makes it seem that the professors which are the most highly prized and the ones which Black has been excluded from, are the ones which they should want the most...
...other theory accepts this view but embraces it So what if the sharpest mind makes the best living warding off anti-trust complaints? Society, through the market, has decided it values this the most. In the circular logic of pure capitalism, "utility has been optimized" in the status quo because it is, well, the status quo. Both views unfairly denigrate the ideals of our generation and wrongly reject the possibility of change...
...debate with the best 16 teams then continuing into the elimination rounds. In each debate, one team affirms the resolution, while the other team negates it. Sides are predetermined; seams that he prepared to debate both sides. The affirmative seam must analyze an inherent flaw in the status quo and propose a change within the resolution that will solve this problem...
...cult. Last week's riots, however, suggest that he cannot depend on such unquestioning adulation in the future. "The kids in the streets are too young to remember Bourguiba as the hero of independence," says a foreign analyst. "For them, he is the paramount symbol of the status quo, and they can curse him one day and cheer him the next." As the time approaches when Bourguiba will have to pass his power to a successor, Tunisia's stability may depend on the regime's success in satisfying that new and volatile constituency...
...truce seemed at hand later in October when the warring parties signed a one-year agreement that prohibited both sides from altering the status quo. But that accord lasted about as long as a cease-fire in Lebanon. During a Getty Oil board meeting in November, the directors asked Gordon to leave the room. While he was out, they decided to support a lawsuit challenging his position as sole head of the Sarah C. Getty Trust...