Word: quos
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...major concerns are themselves evil, but they are trapped in a system that perpetuates mind mush as news. They are assigned stories that matter not in the least to the viewers or readers, that have zero impact on their daily lives. The news only serves to maintain the status quo, in which we are glued to the television while the advertising profits of media magnates skyrocket...
...Chicago, Dole gave a reprise of his "what I did for love" speech (choking up at the same points) in front of an audience of 500. But it was not just an elegy; he also attacked Bill Clinton as "the champion of the Great Society status quo" and defended the 104th Congress--"We kept our promises. He vetoed them." The event was one of the last pure Dole campaign events paid for with campaign funds. Dole is down to his last $200,000, and from here on out, he will go almost exclusively to state and local fund raisers...
...strongly opposed, but then so was the battle to desegregate lunch counters. America has never made progress on racial issues unless there was enough agitation to force society to take action. Just as it did in Plessy v. Ferguson, the Supreme Court is again defending the racial status quo--and it always will in the absence of intense political pressure...
...themselves. The Liberal Democratic Party, which ruled Japan from the year it was founded, 1955, finally lost power in 1993 after one corruption scandal too many. Since then four successive, fragile coalitions have ruled. The current government, led by Ryutaro Hashimoto of the L.D.P., is committed to the status quo when it comes to economic reforms and other measures that are needed to revive Japan...
...also don't have to worry about Saturdays or Memorial Day, and you get a real intersession--not the five- or six-day recovery period that exists right now. But Harvard's administrators never want to accept that point, so they may as well stay with the status quo...