Word: quos
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Bush was frustrated. Deeply stung by domestic and allied criticism that he was drifting into a policy of pallid reaction to Kremlin moves, disappointed in the much touted "review" of Soviet policy that advised only a timid "status quo plus," Bush finally found the urge for action. More important, Baker returned from Moscow convinced that the Soviets were "really serious" about transforming the conventional balance. Gorbachev had laid out a forthcoming Soviet offer that looked as if it would produce both a propaganda coup and an opening for negotiations. Says a senior White House official: "Baker had a feeling that...
Meanwhile, student activists at some of the schools battled the status quo. Joining undergraduate, alumni and staff activists, the graduate students worked for such diverse goals as divestment from South Africa, increased minority and women faculty hiring and the newly recognized union of clerical and technical workers...
...were born in the heat of student protest, when youths spouted visions of changing the world and opening society; now youth are more likely to accept the status quo. But, in a way every student now takes for granted what used to be the highest of goals--women's rights, civil rights and our nation at peace. Even the most traditional of students in the Class of 1989 have made friends with students of different ethnicities, races, religions and sexual preferences...
...president 18 years ago, he was a great liberal reformer, poised to restore order and democracy to the community after the turbulent years of Nathan M. Pusey '28. Today, he is the liberal-turned-corporate agent. The tired, burnt-out reformer. The idealist as guardian of an amoral status quo...
...came to pass, over three days of debate. The 2,250-seat Congress, two-thirds of whose delegates were freely elected, constitutes what is arguably the most democratic governmental institution in more than seven decades of Soviet rule. But the assembly also revealed a profound regard for the status quo in carrying out one of its principal jobs: the election of 542 members of the Supreme Soviet, which will serve as the country's working legislature. In voting results announced Saturday, most anti-establishment candidates, some of whom had defeated high-ranking Communist Party members to reach the Congress, lost...