Word: quos
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...chief of staff in charge of campaign operations, and including the First Lady, that is desperate for Clinton to embrace that message. Several Democrats are complaining that it is not considered politically correct at the White House to complain about the economy; they see this defense of the status quo as dangerous. At a Monday-night meeting last week, top Labor Department officials and other liberal Democratic operatives grumbled that the White House was blocking any attempt by Labor Secretary Robert Reich to give some voice to workers' complaints about job losses and declining incomes. "They think it's morning...
...jobs, gave something to Harvard and we didn't get what we expected in return," Erlich said. "The quid pro quo never materialized, and it became clear that the University was not taking the issue seriously...
...Kennedy, state chairman of the Iowa G.O.P. "It's not so much that they're hooked into the proposal, as the end of the tax system. The way they see it, that's special interests lobbying Senators and Washington to get loopholes. This is a rebellion against the status quo...
...stifle Taiwan's efforts to increase its international standing. During the cold war, the government in Taipei officially agreed with Beijing that there was only one China and Taiwan was part of it. Now Lee, a native-born Taiwanese, favors a kind of peaceful coexistence and prolonged status quo. Three years ago, Taiwan said it intended to rejoin the U.N. "as soon as possible," not as China, but as an entity with as much legitimacy as, say, South Korea. Last month Senegal became the 31st country to establish diplomatic relations with Taiwan. Beijing, says Bertrand Tsai, a political scientist...
...note that if he is re-elected, Lee will have to make a clear choice between soothing or defying Beijing. They believe he will decide on a calming approach, and Beijing is counting on Washington to urge him to do exactly that. But reverting to a long-established status quo will not advance China's demand for reunification nor expunge its vision of a Taiwan drifting further and further away...