Word: quos
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...explains Mark Melcher, director of Washington research for Prudential Securities. Good things have happened because the Republican Congress hasn't let Clinton tax and spend as he might like. And Clinton hasn't let Republicans cut taxes and possibly drive up the budget deficit and interest rates. That status quo looks like it will survive...
...shuns the confrontational G.O.P. style in favor of bipartisanship and doubts the value of the Republican flat tax and consumption-tax proposals. But he believes in giving states control of welfare and Medicaid. Running a safe campaign on the center right, Pease is favored to continue the Republican status quo in the conservative Seventh...
QUOTE OF NOTE: "I don't think the status quo is sufficient. It is time to reinvent the way government operates and the role it plays...
QUOTE OF NOTE: "By inviting a woman into a state of perpetual dependency, the welfare status quo discourages women from developing characteristics such as self-confidence, assertiveness or salesmanship, which are so critical to finding work...
...last year's Kobe earthquake, which took more than 6,300 lives in the region. The same complaints were repeated last summer, when a food-poisoning epidemic in Sakai City, near Osaka, spread to affect nearly 5,800 people throughout the country. "If the politicians stick to the status quo, then we will lose our position in the world market," says Isamu Miyazaki, a senior adviser at the Daiwa Institute of Research. Competition from China and other fast-growing economies in Asia, as well as the globalization of trade, is making it much harder for the stodgy Japanese bureaucrats...