Word: quos
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...impatience with mainstream Democratic politics to the suffering of the non-white and the destitute. In its 1962 manifesto, The Port Huron Statement, SDS zeroed in on the links between the corporate world, the government and the university which were blamed for blocking fundamental deviation from the status quo. Faced with the opportunity to channel its energy into opposition to the quietly growing U.S. commitment in Southeast Asia, SDS consciously opted to maintain a multi-issue stance...
...report discussing sexual harassment, issued last week by an unusual joint committee of Harvard Overseers and Radcliffe Trustees, struck a middle ground between urging all of the broad policy reforms members of the Radcliffe Union of Students (RUS) had lobbied for, and firmly supporting the status quo...
...should stop supplying the Salvadoran military and start putting pressure on d'Aubisson to continue land reform and seek an agreement with the guerrillas. American involvement in El Salvador--which will amount to more than $200 million for fiscal 1983--serves no constructive purpose if it maintains the status quo. What influence we have would be better used to effect pragmatic change. For the time being, though, we are only adding fuel to the fire...
...Independents' attempt to revise the city's rent ordinances was the basis for the past debates, said Councilor David E. Sullivan. "The status quo is a strong tenant protection policy, and they were trying to change the status quo," he said, adding that the commission's report specificially deals with the administrative problems and "doesn't really address the underlying controversy...
Sadat would be much more willing to strive for a comprehensive agreement, while Begin would probably want to limit what might be achieved, because he was more satisfied with the status quo and was very leery about giving up any control over the West Bank or the Israeli settlement area in the Sinai. Sadat was strong and bold, very much aware of world opinion and of his role as the most important leader among the Arabs. I always had the impression that he looked on himself as inheriting the mantle of authority from the great pharaohs...