Word: quos
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...people are expecting "something" to happen. Life has become too joyless and humiliating for the average Iranian to allow for any attachment to the status quo. All basic commodities are supposed to be rationed. In fact, rationing is an excuse for black-marketeering. Clergymen in charge of militiamen's committees run the rackets. Their agents sell a pack of cigarettes at $5, about five times the official price, under the counter. Car owners, restricted to 40 liters (10.56 gal.) of gasoline a month, pay about $21 for an extra 20-liter (5.28 gal.) ration coupon, a hefty addition...
...rock society meanwhile was turning its attention to politics, and some Americans wanted to ascribe one or another leftist philosophy to the Stones. Again "Satisfaction" became the focus of discussion--the first Jagger-Richards song about youth discontent with the status quo, the analysts pronounced in retrospect. As the Stones withdrew culturally into the psychedelic-drug world that would ultimately cost them Brian Jones, they were labelled leaders-in-exile of the revolt. "Street Fightin Man" was dubbed an "anthem...
...accept papal mediation. According to unofficial reports, the suggested terms of settlement award three islands to Chile and put the surrounding waters under shared sovereignty. Chile has declared itself ready to accept the solution. Argentina has not. Until the Falklands crisis forced a visit as a quid pro quo for the British trip, John Paul was unwilling to set foot in the country until the dispute was settled. Speaking to Argentina's clergy on Friday, the Pope made it clear that his trip was an "exceptional" one, "totally different from a normal apostolic pastoral visit...
...indeed care about these important issues when in fact it didn't, "says Molyneux, adding that the new book attempts to take ad hoc decisions and justify them within a systematic framework. "Somehow every-time he thinks about a problem he comes to the conclusion that the status quo is right...
...will to compromise on the part of the Thatcher government. During his many visits to 10 Downing Street, Haig watched time and again as Thatcher pounded the table with the palm of her hand, railing against bowing down to aggression and arguing adamantly for a return to the status quo ante. "You must never forget," she would tell her stunned American guests, evoking the specter of pre-World War II appeasement, "that Neville Chamberlain sat at this very table...