Word: quos
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While the staff's proposal is a big improvement over the registrar's suggestion, there doesn't appear to be any good reason to change the status quo. One of the main benefits of making the alteration, the registrar contends, is that the problems associated with ending the spring exam period on Memorial Day weekend will be fixed. Huh? If exams now end on a Saturday and the motion moves the last final up by one day, then the laws of the calendar dictate that exams end on Friday--the beginning of Memorial Day weekend. Unless we're missing something...
...would have expected Brotman to oppose the status quo," said Coffey, referring to Hyman's current role as the council's president...
...PRESIDENTIAL RACE needs a working metaphor, a compass for the voters to steer by. In 1988 we got "competence vs. ideology," which meant "Whom do you want behind the desk when the phone rings and the Soviet empire collapses?" Then in 1992 we got "change vs. the status quo," which meant "Isn't it time to host a revolution of our own?" But now, as Bob Dole cinches his party's nomination to do battle with Bill Clinton, we find that the race is between two middlemen with rather similar ideas about what government should do, both committed to change...
...takes things as they come up, picking allies and sizing up enemies as necessary. It's as though he thinks it's bad luck to plan ahead. The Dole strategy is to depict himself as the driving force of change while portraying Clinton as the defender of the status quo: Senator Change vs. President Veto. Don Sipple, Dole's top strategist, sums it up this way: "We've got an agenda for change. The only question is whether Clinton gets on board or stands...
...American people perceive the Internet and the press differently. The Internet, with its seemingly unlimited potential for exchanging information, is primarily seen as an engine for grass-roots activism. The press is perceived as a maintainer of the status quo, as a part of the Washington elite...