Word: quos
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...caught in a vicious cycle, in which the brightest and most ambitious enter fields that most solidify the social status quo--blazing a path to nowhere in which the next generation of equally smart and energetic Harvard graduates is bound to follow...
...Bushfan does an adequate job of orderly and for the most part caters to her every whim because his job depends on it. His lack of insurrection entrenches him in the picture of the status quo. It is the intern doctor who attempts to challenge the nurse in her ideology, and he makes the observation which is the crux of the play accusing, "The pillars of your house are blistered and peeling...
This kind of unnoticed popularity has long been the status quo for Koch, who, despite having published fifteen books of poems, several plays, two works of fiction and three very influential volumes on teaching poetry, despite his long-standing membership in the famous "New York School" of poets, and despite his decades-long association with many of the most significant names in American literature, has never been of great interest to the academic critical establishment. His new books, when they appear, are readily available and widely read, but they never seem to generate much critical dialogue, to the point that...
Part 4: Push for a quid pro quo. When the job hunt was on, Tripp made Lewinsky promise not to sign a Paula Jones affidavit denying sex until her new position was locked up--"because if you sign the affidavit before you get the job, they're never going to give you the job." Had Lewinsky taken her advice, it would have looked like an explicit deal--lies in exchange for employment--when in fact Lewinsky started asking Clinton for job help months before she knew she was a Jones-team target. But here's a neat plot twist: Lewinsky...
...Howard University graduate said students can make a difference by becoming big brothers and sisters, refusing to accept the status quo, and by simply voting...