Word: quos
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...development bank might become a bottomless Santa's bag that would provide goodies for those with political clout. Federal aid might prop up inefficient companies and prevent the shift of resources to more dynamic firms. Instead of strengthening the economy, opponents charge, industrial policy would preserve the status quo. Says Harvard Economist Lawrence Summers: "Industrial policy is chiropractic economics. At best, it would be ineffectual. At worst, it would be a wrenching experience...
...opponents set the agenda," Biden said. "We are perceived as the party of the status quo...
...offer a convenience at all if the price will preclude impulse buying? Gimmicks like this work only if they offer an easier alternative to the status quo. There is a special brand of arrogance in Harvard's assumption that, to every student, the "inconvenience" of spending $5.00 is negligible compared with the inconvenience of pavement pounding in search of classes. If binding the booklets cheaply and distributing them free is prohibitively expensive, the College should simply have them available through Lamont and House Libraries...
...real dilemma concerning South Africa, according to the five, is that the whites will not initiate any change in the status quo because it could lead to their destruction. At the same time, since the whites are so firmly entrenched in control, no change can occur without their support. Therefore it is essential that foreign powers assert whatever influence they have in order to nudge the whites into permitting reform, they...
...real dilemma concerning South Africa, according to the five, is that the whites will not initiate any change in the status quo because it could lead to their destruction. At the same time, since the whites are so firmly entrenched in control, no change can occur without their support. Therefore it is essential that foreign powers assert whatever influence they have in order to nudge the whites into permitting reform, they...