Word: quos
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...make the tough sacrifices today to insure our solvency and stability tomorrow. We need to find a voice that will not needlessly scare seniors and political action committees. We need to find a voice that will not lend itself to demagoguery and the protection of a rapidly deteriorating status quo. We need to find a voice that will make the courageous and potentially unpopular decisions now to preserve the future of this nation...
...troops from Japan. They are needed as a bulwark against the threat of a North Korean attack. If there is a change in policy, it will have to come from the Japanese government, and the last time their temperature was checked, they wanted to stay with the status quo...
Obviously, Cerny missed out on an excellent debate between us and the Republican Club on the issue of welfare. If he had been there, he would have seen the College Democrats offering not "a defense of the status quo" but exactly what he calls for in his editorial--"progressive" solutions to "end the pervasive cycle of poverty," such as raising the minimum wage, improving public education and job training, expanding tax credits for the working poor, providing child care for single parents who want to work and extending health care coverage for those who fear losing their Medicaid coverage...
...opening up the economy, he is unlikely to promote sweeping change. The real significance of Hashimoto's arrival as Prime Minister is not that he brings a new style but that his elevation sets up a first in Japan: a battle between a savvy, dynamic defender of the status quo and an equally dynamic and hardheaded antagonist of the status quo...
BILL CLINTON If he rides this horse too far, he'll be defender of the status quo...