Word: quos
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Congratulations on your coverage of Jesse Jackson and his attempt to mobilize black voters for the presidential election of 1984 [Aug. 22]. Jackson represents a rallying point for all voters disillusioned with the status quo of American politics. His dedication to fulfilling the dreams of Martin Luther King Jr. should remind Americans of their obligation to ensure equality of representation for everyone, regardless of color or station in life...
...Aspin of Wisconsin, Norman Dicks of Washington, and Albert Gore Jr. of Tennessee never promised their support with no strings attached. When the Scowcroft Commission's report on strategic forces came out last April, the three were widely credited with engineering the package's major quid pro quo: congressional support for the MX in exchange for the Administration's good-faith pursuit of a U.S.-Soviet arms-control deal. So far the Congressmen have delivered on their end. Since the report's publication, the MX has survived two funding votes in the House. But as doubts...
Today's status quo is not what more than 200,000 marchers looked to almost 20 years ago, nor does the immediate future promise the "now" that Lewis like so many others, called for that day. Organizers are realistic about the difficulties ahead. "The march is just a beginning. In order for this to do any good, we'll have to continue beyond August 27," a local organizer said recently. But the anniversary march like its predecessor, can hope to stand as testimony that many Americans do in fact "Still Have a Dream...
...report's conclusions met with some dissent. Panelist Lawrence Stark, a neurologist at the University of California, while agreeing that VDTs do not cause permanent eye damage, contested the view that they are not responsible for eye fatigue. "The report is a whitewash for the status quo," said Stark. "All the complaints of burning, eyestrain, headache, stinging, watery eyes connected with VDT use are valid claims. Just because you cannot measure visual fatigue does not mean it does not exist...
That is why I support the status quo as it was a year and a half ago [before Spain joined NATO]. That does not mean that Spain will not assume its share of responsibility in Western defense, because we continue to have a bilateral [base] agreement with the U.S. There will be a referendum [on NATO] when we have completed our determination of our national needs, and when the international climate is such that the [EastWest] balance would not be upset...