Word: quos
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...provisions attached to it. In 1978, when Somoza's power was already threatened by the Sandinistas, Washington severed its special military relationship with the high-living Nicaraguan dictator. Soon afterward, the Administration announced a total reversal of previous U.S. policy: a shifting from hearty support of the status quo to a zealous advocacy of economic and political reform. Thus at a time when U.S. interests are being flouted in Iran and Afghanistan, and when even the European allies question America's right and ability to lead the West, Central America has emerged as a major test...
...room mansion was a fitting accessory to the role performed by a series of U.S. envoys. In those days, the American Ambassador was among the capital's top VIPS, acting as a kind of proconsul for U.S. commercial interests and as a guardian of the local status quo...
...about the outcome of this battle. One, the Chicken Little crowd, is convinced that the roof is falling in and that all the controls and ordinances will only slow the collapse, perhaps allowing a little creative planning and partial coping. The others, fewer in number, think perhaps the status quo can be retained, that Cambridge may remain an anomalous mix of the wealthy and the poor, factory worker and professor...
...cent approval rating in the polls is serious enough to justify scrapping an incumbent president, or whether such a decision requires a scandal of Watergate proportions. With an open convention rule defeated, delegates are bound not only to candidates, but also to a stifling--perhaps even intolerable--status quo...
...blacks to buy their own homes, have either not materialized or largely failed. Organizers of the African National Congress, the outlawed black political movement, operate with increasing ease. Meanwhile, the colored population of 3 million, which once supported the country's 4.3 million whites in perpetuating the status quo, has become politicized and appears increasingly disposed to make common cause with the 20 million blacks. For the past two months, in every major urban area, colored protesters organized an almost total school boycott of the sort the blacks have repeatedly staged in the past...