Word: quos
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Harvard College Democrats bluster about "liberalism," their agenda is essentially a defense of the status quo. There is a name for someone with this type of outlook. It's called a "conservative." Harvard Democrats should adopt a true progressive agenda that speaks to the real concerns of our generation, not a mere echo of what the politicians in Washington's "line...
...sort of status quo, that is where Harvard hires the staff and calls the shots in terms at least of staffing patterns," Peretz said. "Another is a united board, [including all the major stakeholders]. Option three is that if students do not feel adequately represented and respected in terms of the decision making and things that they care about, they would go farther out, and that's not a desirable alternative either...
...from Marietta has pieced together a set of political ideas to offer a hopeful if hazy vision of the future and to provide conservatives with an agenda that is not simply the opposite number of their opponents'. But his chief accomplishment thus far is the destruction of the status quo. That may be the limit of his historic role. Every movement of ideas must have a human face, a person in whose integrity and wisdom people can believe sufficiently to overlook the risks and the inconsistencies contained in the new ideology...
...midterm elections as a mandate for the destruction of the federal government. Unfortunately for him, voters may speak of their dislike for large government but they nonetheless enjoy the benefits provided by that government. Last year's election now can be seen as voter dislike for the status quo instead of an affirmation of the Contract with America. Instead of appearing as a tax-and-spend liberal who wants to take away Americans' health care choices (as Republicans effectively portrayed him in 1994), Clinton now looks like the only sane voice in government, a centrist who will curb the excesses...
...highest literary honors upon a barbarian who could not write a sentence of grammar and hardly could spell his own name." Indeed, after receiving the degree, which was presented in Latin, Jackson was said to have responded. "Ex post facto; c pluribus unum; sic scmper tyrannis; quid pro quo...