Word: quos
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Reagan may have gotten the specific facts wrong, but he was on to something important. It wasn't the solutions he offered, but the problems he identified that won him such wide support. His speeches reveal that his true flair was tapping public discontent with the status quo, not selling his policy proposals...
Liberals consistently offered a blanket defense of a status quo that was clearly inadequate, simply because they thought Reagan's alternatives were worse. When liberals should have been honestly assessing the shortcomings of their programs and seeking to correct them, they were using Reagan's inarticulate criticisms as evidence that no problem existed...
...each time I went down there I felt a reluctant but ever-increasing awareness of the apathy that permeates the life of Villa Victoria residents, and the complacency with which they accept the status quo. Each time I visited the houses of Maritza or her friends and neighbors, I wondered what I was doing there, administering band-aids to people with broken spirits...
...East Berlin has intensified since he dropped out of sight on Aug. 14. Officially, he is recuperating from a gallbladder operation, but the whispers have grown louder that he has cancer. Even if Honecker's political life is over, his successor | is not expected to deviate from the status quo course Honecker has set. The consensus among the Politburo's 26 members (average age: 68) is that a refusal to change guarantees stability...
...Mazowiecki's success may depend on his ability to deal with Poland's economic situation -- quickly. Can the U.S. really afford to let him fail for lack of assistance? It is odd, to say the least, that George Bush appears to have been as comfortable with the Communist status quo as with this historic breakthrough for democracy...