Word: quos
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...problem is Glass-Steagall, a Depression-era law that bars U.S. banks from uniting with brokerages and vice versa. In Congress the quid pro quo for knocking it down is expanding the mandated banking welfare program known as the Community Reinvestment Act, which mandates low-interest loans in high-risk inner cities. The banks are willing to go along -- "they know that they won't get deregulation without a compromise," says TIME senior economics reporter Bernard Baumohl -- but Gramm...
Harshbarger also focused on education, but in the end, while voters obviously cared about education, they felt safe enough with Cellucci to maintain the status quo...
These fears of returning to a Dukakis-like era of large state debt and fiscal irresponsibility, coupled with troubling indications of an economic stumble, forced voters to think twice about bucking the status quo...
Voters say one issue that could give the edgeto Cellucci is the strong economy, with satisfiedvoters content to let the status quo stand...
...course the differences on final-status issues looked insurmountable at the time Oslo was signed, which was why the four-year interim was designed -- to give both sides time to learn to trust each other in quid-pro-quo steps before tackling the most difficult hurdle. But, far from building mutual confidence, the last four years have been a disaster. Both sides are girding for confrontation next May, when Yasser Arafat intends to declare a Palestinian state regardless of Israel's objections. Indeed, a cynical view might hold that both sides came to Wye in order to position themselves most...