Word: quos
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...doubt about the passion, as evidenced by the willingness of ordinary people to obstruct tanks and of hunger strikers to court death. If anything, the absence of an ideology with specific long-range aims indicates just how powerful is the public revulsion at the party and the entire status quo. The immediate reasons for the discontent -- the government's condescending treatment of the student demonstrators and its general repressiveness -- are clear. But the anger also stems from the less political aspects of everyday life. Economically and socially, China is experiencing many of the dislocations that typify an era of revolutionary...
...lost the past two national elections armed with a platform of unilateral nuclear disarmament, the Labor Party last week launched a strike against that controversial policy. Its national executive committee overwhelmingly adopted a proposal to scrap a 1981 commitment to dismantle Britain's nuclear arsenal without any quid pro quo from other countries...
Until recently, the very degree to which abortion had become accepted had led to inertia among pro-choice forces -- it is not easy to mobilize to defend the status quo. Pro-choice activists have also been criticized for failing to take sufficient account of the mixed feelings that abortion can give rise to. Lately you can hear some of them framing their arguments with greater care. "Nobody likes abortion. It's a difficult choice," says Kate Michelman, executive director of the National Abortion Rights Action League (NARAL). "Women don't have abortions they want. They have abortions they need...
THESE actions are clear signs that many council decision-makers, and probably many of the students they represent, can make it through four years of Harvard and still not question the ideology of the status quo...
...fraud. What La Quina, Legorreta and Felix Gallardo have in common is that they are renowned for using patronage and corruption to put themselves beyond the reach of the law. By tackling such formidable figures head on, Salinas has given notice that he is willing to uproot the status quo to enforce his policies. "There is not a single taboo that remains in place," says Luis Rubio, head of the Mexico City-based Research Center for Development. "Nothing is unthinkable in Mexico anymore...