Word: quos
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Clinton Administration officials, wary of Cuban motives, today said they were interested in Vesco's extradition -- but not, as Havana has hinted, atthe price of warming U.S. relations with Cuba. Douglas Waller, TIME national security correspondent, says the State Department is under pressure to seek a lesser quid pro quo rather than lose such a high profile fugitive. Still, Waller adds: "The Vesco case is 23 years old, and he's not Michael Milken. He's an icon of a past generation of greed...
Right now, the NAACP is waiting to meet withthe city manager to discuss the six points. If thepast record of complaint and response holds true,however, the status quo is unlikely to change: thefundamental structure adopted in the 1991 plancalls for growth--but slowly and gradually...
There has always been an intimacy between powerful editors and their favorite powerful designers: legendary Vogue editor in chief Diana Vreeland with Hubert de Givenchy and Halston, the quid with the quo. But the magazine recession of the early 1990s, which intensified the scramble for ad pages everywhere, made the cozy relationships even cozier. During that period, design companies amassed even more advertising clout. The economic pressure has eased lately-for instance, ad pages through May are up 16% for Elle and 9% for Glamour over last year. Still, the compromises remain...
This is nowhere more evident than in his 1996 budget, a stunning defense of the status quo. It is a document so devoid of change, so wedded to existing programs, so blithely and defiantly bloated-the Congressional Budget Office calculates that by 2000 it will produce a deficit of $276 billion -- that the Senate rejected...
...expect a Democrat to act in defense of traditional Democratic constituencies. But Clinton's attachment to the status quo extends even to a defense of farm subsidies. Republicans, it is reputed, like to target women and children but would never go after agricultural fat cats. Well, the g.o.p. has proposed an $8 billion cut in farm subsidies. Clinton responded with a ringing attack on those who would "turn and walk away from the farmers of this country in the name of cutting spending...