Word: quos
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...Gore believes in extending the hand of government to nurture promising technologies. The case of Bill Haney and his toxic-waste washing machine shows the Vice President knows how to get a hand in return. In Washington it's often hard to line up the quid with the quo. But what this Massachusetts entrepreneur apparently got for the $82,000 he and his executives gave to Gore and the Democrats since 1994 is not hard to decipher: a fat contract from the Energy Department that kept being renewed over the objections of government scientists...
...string of coincidences and conjecture," says Haney's spokesman, adding that the company "categorically and in the strongest terms" denies any quid pro quo. Knight did not return telephone calls seeking comment. Grumbly, who left the government two months ago for a job with an environmental firm, dismissed as "baloney" any suggestion that Haney got favorable treatment because of Knight or contributions...
...billion-a-year electric-power industry slept for decades under a cozy blanket of cost-plus-profit income streams and fat dividends that seemed to promise payouts forever. The status quo is about to get a jolt from, among others, John W. Rowe, 52, president and CEO of New England Electric System of Westborough, Mass. NEES is New England's second largest power utility, with $2.3 billion in 1996 revenues and 5,000 employees. Under Rowe, the utility has become a leader in allowing consumers to shop around for electric power the same way they shop for long-distance telephone...
...Cohen has left himself plenty of room for retreat: "He never really singled Ralston out. All Cohen said was that his affair didn't automatically disqualify him." But finding a new candidate has some pitfalls for the Pentagon. "Ralston is the kind of chairman the Pentagon wants, a status quo guy. Marine General John Sheehan, who currently runs the U.S. Atlantic Command in Norfolk, Virginia, is the next obvious choice. But he's something of a radical, who wants to seriously shake up the military. Now, they need to find another status quo guy. That could be tough...
...other Faculty seem to agree with Gomes, favoring reform or reconsideration of reading period as an academic structure over a continuation of the status quo...